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They start to see ghosts and gradually we find that there are some living Martians, though perhaps they live only as memories. But Earth is too crowded and people come to settle, bringing juke joints, small homes and beauty parlours - recreating small town America which was Bradbury's home. In one story, the war on Earth escalates and strangely most Mars settlers think they should return - not a great idea when war means nuclear war. A young man left alone decides to find a young woman if one is left, and rings every beauty parlour until he finds one.

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This female would have been out securing food. But his idea doesn't seem so great after a while and he leaves her, stumbling onto a couple of females who are actually androids built by a nutty professor, not that he knows that. Other stories such as Billion Year Picnic at the end tell of a family exploring Mars looking for a city to settle in, knowing that now there is no going back to a devastated Earth and they have become the Martians for real.

One or two of Bradbury's stories were omitted from the collection, such as the tale of the ship full of coloured people who left homes in America for a better future, but most of them are more social comment than hard science, a warning that the future of humanity may depend on our ability to leave this planet and a query as to what we will bring and build. Because this was never hard SF it has not dated, so read it as a fantasy or allegory and enjoy.

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This is a collection of Ray Bradbury's Mars colonization stories which were originally published in pulp magazines over a period of a few years. They are independent of each other in plot, but it is fascinating how Bradbury managed to pull them all together in a cohesive whole which told a story in itself. This book is considered the bridge between classic pulp science fiction which targeted lowest-common-denominator audiences and the more thoughtful and sophisticated modern science fiction.

The stories have the same raw imagination as pulp, but each one tackles one or more social issues as well. The stories are fast and fun, and yet intriguing. My favorite story is about two missionaries bent on saving the Martians from sins that we humans haven't even imagined yet. The philosophical discussion of sin and the ironic use of Christian symbolism meshed surprisingly well with the sf-pulpy imagery.

Bradbury also touched on evils-of-colonization, race-relations and xenophobia, and politics I was also impressed by Bradbury's expectations of "the future" - Unavoidably, some of his themes were dated--we no longer worry about nuclear holocaust and I hope!

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He didn't foresee the civil rights movement or the cooling of the arms race. Despite this lack of foresight, he showed that humans never change. We may think we're living in an enlightened age, but xenophobia still exists and we're still willing to destroy the history and of an old land in order to set up our new world. Yes, I did feel that the stories tended to be a bit on the dreary side, but for some reason it didn't bother me so much because it was made palatable by Bradbury's fantastic imagination.

This is a fantastic classic that any science fiction fan should read. All of us have enjoyed the writing prowess of Ray Bradbury throughout his writing career. His style, while varied, has given us the rich boyhood tales from 'Dandelion Wine' to his myriad of insightful and haunting short stories to his eerily descriptive "Something Wicked In a unique manner of offering us a series of short tales and essays written about inhabitants of Mars and covering a progressive number of decades, we are given an overall view of man's inhumanity to anyone but himself and, because of these actions, we are led to the eventual nuclear destruction of our home planet, Earth.

While Earth, itself, is what it is, the proving ground for man's insanity, Mars is presented as symbolic prose. Does it represent man's retreat or escape from reality? Is it merely a dream-like repression from our own aggressions? Or does it offer us a means for hope and the striving for an existence other than the one we find ourselves living through?

The answer to this puzzling question could not be answered by the author anymore than it can be by his most ardent readers My quickie review of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The book reads like a group of short stories but all put together makes one big story. Storyline: In the future, people go to Mars to make it a new "Earth" since they've done a great job destroying Earth.


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Martians get sick with human diseases and die. We ruin Mars just like we ruined Earth. A war breaks out on Earth. I enjoyed this book but it has a lot of warnings for us. Warning 1: Don't destroy our Earth, it's the only one we have. Warning 2: Stop the racism and prejudices.

Warning 3: Don't be so afraid of the unknown. Martian Chronicles was a short read that could be seen as depressing sci-fi. I read it in high school but definitely have a better understanding of the novel now, as an adult. Thanks to Sarah Says Read for reading it with me! I know, Sarah, it took me forever to get this post up since we read it a while ago! Have you read The Martian Chronicles? Thanks for reading, Rebecca Love at First Book. These tales represent quite an imaginative collection of storytelling by Bradbury.

The Martian Chronicles is a series of short stories which loosely interlink and tell of Man's arrival to Mars in the distant year of Bradbury wrote book in , with the stories continuing on chronologically until the year They depict Man's behaviors and emotions as humans make discoveries on the planet.

Within the stories are human interactions with the Martians, and the subsequent problems they create when they try to project their culture onto the new land. While many of the stories are told from Man's point of view, one consistent theme is Man's ignorance to his new surroundings. The stories have an ironic, underlying spooky approach to them; they don't really reach out and grab you, but they slightly get under your skin enough to make you feel uncomfortable.

Evident within the tales is a Twilight Zone-like feel, where you are given some irregular settings and conflicts, and sometimes slight twists at the conclusion. Most of all, these stories make you think about existence, and the possibilities, and man's sometimes overzealous nature with exploration. Here are some of the stories in the collection, and a quick synopsis: "The Third Expedition"-- a group of explorers led by Captain Black arrive on Mars only to find that it looks like their old home town and is inhabited by friends and family from the past.

While many of his shipmates are thrilled with joy to see their loved ones, Black is cautious and skeptical about what is happening, believing this too good to be true. He seeks everywhere to find someone, anyone, but it seems that fate will leave him isolated. That is, until he finds one woman, Genevieve, to talk to. However, he realizes there is a twist to finding the only person left, it seems A man, Stenghal, builds a macabre house, which he dubs The House of Usher. Stenghal has built the house as sort of a tribute to all literary legends and the classics of the past, but with stuffed animals, and other bizarre features, it is straight out Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher.

A man comes to tear down the house, and to report Stenghal, but slowly finds himself in the middle of an Edgar Allan Poe story. Hathaway and his family alone. Wilder notices something out of place about Hathaway's wife and kids--they haven't aged! He sends one of his crewmembers to find out what the truth is.

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Although a house's appliances and mechanisms live on the clock ticks, the alarm sounds, a mechanical voice is overhead--the house is, in fact, lifeless. This is a story that is quite apocalyptical in its setting, and seems to depict the destruction forces of humanity A family appears to be headed towards a picnic as they pass the desolate, dead towns of the planet, but the father reveals his true reasons for taking his family on the excursion, and reveals the truth of the Earth's destruction.

The story is a commentary on starting over. Over all, a worthwhile collection of stories, and definitely a must for science fiction or Bradbury fans. I read Fahrenheit a few months ago and loved it! It was such an easy book to get sucked into. I really liked the beginning. Though quite fantastical bahh I'm embarrassed - I read over that word at least 10 times and wasn't sure if I made it up or not! There was this feeling of unease that permeated through each story, which upped the enjoyable factor quite significantly!

Now cue, oh I don't know I can't even really pin-point it - I just sort of lost interest.