The Martian Chronicles
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Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. Each wave different, and each wave stronger. 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 20th-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. 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.
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Ray Bradbury. (2014). The Martian Chronicles. Unabridged ListenUp Audiobooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Ray Bradbury. 2014. The Martian Chronicles. ListenUp Audiobooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles. ListenUp Audiobooks, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles. Unabridged ListenUp Audiobooks, 2014.
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