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The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

Record Cover: The Martian Chronicles
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STATUS: FINISHED
Pages Count 182
Publisher UNKNOWN
Pub Date 1950-01-01
Date Archived May 1, 2024
Registry ID N/A

Summary

Soar above the fossil seas and crystal pillars of a dead world in the pages of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. A milestone of American literature, Bradbury’s classic collection of interconnected vignettes about life on the red planet diverges from the War of the Worlds theme, in which humanity must defend its shores against its neighbors, for in Bradbury’s prismatic vision, humanity is the conqueror, colonizing Mars to escape an Earth devastated by atomic war and environmental catastrophe.