Heinlein may have been the best pure storyteller, and Asimov and Clarke the most skillful at executing Big Ideas, but Bradbury beats them all in pure prose-smithing. Here is my problem with Ray Bradbury: of all the Grand Old Masters of Science Fiction (or 'cranky old white guys,' if you prefer) - I think he is probably the best writer in terms of putting words together. Here are the captivating chronicles of man and Mars, the modern classic by the peerless Ray Bradbury. The strange new world with its ancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts cast a spell on him, settled into his dreams, and changed him forever. Man conquered Mars - and in that instant, Mars conquered him. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. 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.Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. 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.

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. 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.

But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.īradbury'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. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. Each wave different, and each wave stronger. Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves.

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