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The Martian Chronicles
(Hardcover, 1997)
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Author: Ray Bradbury
A new introduction, plus the stories "The Fire Balloons" and "The Wilderness," have been added to th...
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Synopsis
A new introduction, plus the stories "The Fire Balloons" and "The Wilderness," have been added to this updated, revised edition of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, while the story "Way in the Middle of the Air" has been cut. In addition, the date associated with each story in the book has been shifted 31 years into the future, as the earlier editions would have had humans reaching Mars by 1999., The brown-skinned, yellow-eyed people of Mars live a beautiful, peaceful life rich with art, music, and philosophy, until the humans from Earth land on their planet and attempt to colonize it in this classic collection of linked short stories. The planet Mars acts as a mirror to the worst (and, very occasionally, the best) of humanity--sometimes literally, as when the telepathic Martians masquerade as the humans' long-dead relatives. Eventually, the humans are defeated, both on Mars and on Earth, by their own weaknesses. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES is not hard SF in any sense. It's a poetic, mythic vision of Mars, as Percival Lowell might have imagined it to be when he saw shadows through his telescope and thought they were canals. And it's a series of vignettes about real people who react in very familiar ways in a strange place. As Bradbury describes it in his introduction to the revised 1997 edition, he was attempting to write WINESBURG, OHIO, set on Mars.
| Size | | Length: | 268 pages | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets.<BR>And then a long wave of warmth crossed the small town."
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Other Editions
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Paperback, 1994 - $0.75 Save 90%
Hardcover, 1999 - $39.98
Book, 1990 - $2.90
Hardcover, 1985 - $5.90 Save 78%
Hardcover, 1991 - $5.95 Save 77%
Hardcover, 1986 - $3.00 Save 93%
Audio, 1997 - $14.12 Save 76%
Hardcover, 1999 - $25.71
Audio, 1983 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 1990 - $6.94 Save 56%
Book, 1973 - $0.75
Hardcover, 1994 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Audio, 2009 - $13.43 Save 32%
Audio, 2009 - $19.90 Save 33%
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