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 The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Description: ISBN 0006479235 / Author: Ray Bradbury / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Colonists from Earth were few at first, and most of them suffered the ... more  The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury ... illness called The Loneliness - because when you saw your home town, then your home planet, dwindle to the size of a fist, you felt you had never been born. Then came the overwhelming strangeness they would find on Mars.Newest Review: ... Isherwood read the manuscript, and wrote a glowing review. This review helped propel Bradbury to the heights during the ... more ... Golden Age of science fiction. The book? A gem entitled "The Martian Chronicles."
~~~~The Book~~~
The book itself is as the title suggests, a chronicle, thus the book is made up of a series of short stories that follow a chronological order, and present a historical viewpoint of an epoch of Martian history. These range from those in the area of the space centre on Earth who are affected by the rocket take off, and of the Martians themselves, to the astronauts who first visit, to the colonists who follow, The sto...more |
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Format: paperback (B format), Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 240, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Voyager - Books/Subjects/ ... |
£ 5.99 |
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The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury: Finding the "Real" Martians (971 words)
by shroud - written on 28.04.07 (Very useful, 264 readings)
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~~~~A bit of Background on the Author~~~~ Each writer puts a bit of him or herself into their writing as the stories flow from somewhere deep within their soul. Hence, I feel it is always pertinent to learn at least a bit about the writer to gain a deeper appreciation of their work. Ray Bradbury is no exception to this rule. Born in the US state of Illinois to Swedish immigrant parents in 1920, Ray came from a family who had newspapers in the blood. Both his great grandfather and grandfather were newspaper publishers, and it was no great surprise to the family when the young avid reader grew up and decided to sell newspapers himself and educate himself rather ...
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