The Martian Chronicles (Voyager Classics) - Softcover

Bradbury, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007119623 ISBN 13: 9780007119622

Publisher: HarperVoyager, 2001

Synopsis

The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection.

The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.

But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.

About this title

Review:

‘The bitter irony of The Martian Chronicles is both stark and shocking’ Guardian

‘The laureate of science fiction’ Manchester Evening News

‘The king of science fiction’ Mail on Sunday

‘Bradbury has a remarkable range of intensity and vision’ Sunday Times

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0007119623
• ISBN 13: 9780007119622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242