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The Martian chronicles / Ray Bradbury.

by Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.

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Doubleday, 1958.

Mars (Planet) -- Fiction.

9780062079930 (2011 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics trade pbk.)

9781451678192 (2012 1st Simon & Schuster Paperbakcs ed.)

0553011804 (Bantam pbk.)

0553278223 (Bantam pbk.)

0380973839 (1997 William Morrow hc)

"Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong."--Inside jacket.

Science fiction.

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