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... For everyone else, did you ever have a teacher that used science fiction? I realize there are a few classics (Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, etc), but anything else? Just wondering ... I'm using 1984 in a Modern European History class this ...

... MARTIAN CHRONICLES and quite a number of his stories are definitely sci fi. See, I don't think of stuff like The Martian Chronicles, A Princess of Mars, An Alien Heat or even Star Wars as 'sci-fi'. But then I don't know what you would call them. This isn't a very reasoned ...

... MARTIAN CHRONICLES and quite a number of his stories are definitely sci fi. See, I don't think of stuff like The Martian Chronicles, A Princess of Mars, An Alien Heat or even Star Wars as 'sci-fi'. But then I don't know what you would call them. This isn't a very reasoned ...

... gasps from everyone reading this thread. Cliff has suggested Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes and Martian Chronicles as examples of science fiction that does not use science. Any other suggestions?

Well, with Bradbury you have to read MARTIAN CHRONICLES and, my fave, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. Bradbury often gives in to sentiment and treacle but I gotta honestly say no one, writes like him. P.S. That would be a good thread: non-science science fiction writers...

... fiction, and 21 times as short stories. However, South Pacific was a Broadway Musical that seemed a whole to viewers. Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury is tagged as a novel 45 times, but as fiction 465 times, and as short stories 223. I think this had a kind of TV series.

Have reserved Dandelion Wine and I sing the body electric from my local library - sadly, they no longer have copies of The Martian Chronicles so will have to look for that elsewhere. Am looking forward to reading more Bradbury :-) In the meantime, has been quite busy so have been doing ...

... Drury Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant The Titans by John Jakes The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

... etc.), Anne McCaffrey 22. A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge 23. Frek and the Elixer, Rudy Rucker 24. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury 25. The Dancers at the End of Time books, Michael Moorcock

Initially I posted The Martian Chronicles as my first, but now I'm not sure. I know I also read A Wrinkle in Time early on, and there might even be others I've since forgotten. Those two made big impressions though.

... by George R. Stewart - The Rakehells of Heaven by John Boyd - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Ice people by Byrene Barj - Songs of Distant by Earth Ar ...

... by George R. Stewart - The Rakehells of Heaven by John Boyd - The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Ice people by Byrene Barj - Songs of Distant by Earth Ar ...

I'm pretty sure that first story is 'There Will Come Soft Rains' by Ray Bradbury. It's one of the stories in The Martian Chronicles. Here's the wikipedia article on There Will Come Soft Rains

... Stories, John O’Hara …Selected Stories, Alice Munro …The Collected Stories, Arthur C. Clarke …The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury …Night Shift, Stephen King …Nightfall & other stories, Isaac Asimov …Bloodchild & other stories, Octavia E. ...

... I reproduce it here: George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four George R. Stewart - Earth Abides Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles Robert A. Heinlein - The Puppet Masters John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids Bernard Wolfe - Limbo Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man ...

Something Wicked This Way Comes or The Martian Chronicles are my favorites by Bradbury.

... on his writings since a college English professor gave a writing assignment to us after we read Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains taken from The Martian Chronicles In my opinion, there are very few authors who can capture such vivid images in one sentence.

... ee Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Shadow of the Wind by Carlow Ruiz Zafon There are others, but those are the ones at the top of my list.

I think There Will Come Soft Rains from that is a terrific piece of writing. That knocked me flat.

... #20; Bradbury is a science fiction author whose style speaks to me in a very poetic way. I get that feeling mostly from The Martian Chronicles.

35. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury : (reread) A favorite of mine... read again just for fun. Recommended to all. jargoneer in Science Fiction Fans : 5 most reread sci-fi books/authors (May 28, 2008, 11:05am)

... another thread but I don't consider Bradbury an sf writer; to me he's a fantasist who often has a superficial sf framework. The Martian Chronicles is a good example of this - it's less an sf story than a modern western (substitute the Martians with Indians).

I thought about the Martian Chronicles while writing the above post. I read the collection about ten years after I read The Sands of Mars and considered using it in my example, but as I thought about it I felt many of the stories, while set on Mars, were more closely related to Serling's Twilig ...

Gene: how do you think you'd feel re-reading Bradbury's MARTIAN CHRONICLES? None of the tales that make up the book have the slightest bearing on reality, the actual state of the Red Planet as we now see it. But the stories still have power and beauty. Don't let the real world get in the way of ...

I don't reread too much SF, but off hand these come to mind: 1. The Martian Chronicles 2. Red Genesis by S. C. Sykes Sometimes I think of revisiting Blish's Cities in Flight and Solaris, the later after watching the recent version of it on film. Initially I read it before having ...

... short story. Cool. X Minus 1 and Dimension X LOVED Ray Bradbury. There are a number of his stories as episodes. The Martian Chronicles is really a series of stories. On those shows they adapted various stories as individual episodes and they also tried condensing all the stories into ...

... seeing my mother read much but my father always had a book in hand. It was he who gave me Out of the Silent Planet, The Martian Chronicles, and The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. I'm sure he thought the more mature parts would elude me--which they did. Side note: A common thread here ...

... just heard a preview of Neverwhere, but that sounds pretty good too. I really enjoy listening to Ray Bradbury read The Martian Chronicles, but that could be as much for nostalgia as for artistic merit. Right now I'm listening to Alice Sebold read The Lovely Bones and she's doing a ...

I fell in love with Sci-fi after reading Bradbury and Heinlein in Jr High (no idea which books). Study Hall was in the library and I used to pull them off the shelf, read a few chapters, put it back and continue reading during the next class. My first introduction to more “hardcore” ...

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury I was eleven when I checked it out of the library, read it, and became hooked on science fiction. I still have a vivid memory of being in the library and facing the wall of shelves it was on. When I was younger than that, I remember reading various ...

... the author is the narrator, I've enjoyed. Barbara Kingsolver reading Prodigal Summer, and Ray Bradbury reading The Martian Chronicles are two of my favorites. Neil Gaiman is also always reliable - he did a great job with Stardust and Coraline, and pretty good with Fragile ...

#124 - Is that The Martian Chronicles? More of a guess even though I read it recently....

... translation of Lord of the Rings, so those are in triplicate. The most annoying duplicates must be Ray Bradbury - The Silver Locusts / The Martian Chronicles, and Anne McCaffrey - Dragonseye / Red Star Rising. The same books, but with different titles...

... I huge Bradbury fan, so it's odd that I had never read this before. It was superb. Still, I didn't find it as genius as The Martian Chronicles. also... 5. Ecclesiastes : My favorite book in the entire Bible, I just finished re-studying it this evening.

Isn't Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles a series of connected stories?

... find that so? Ray Bradbury is great, too. I love Something Wicked This Way Comes and Farenheit 451, along with Martian Chronicles is in my TBR pile.

... Watch. Let us know if you write a review of it, I'm always interested in hearing more opinions! I finished Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and really enjoyed it! Now I'm in the middle of Find Me which is the latest in Carol O'Connell's Mallory series.

Cliff, technical accuracy a problem - I lump The Martian Chronicles (and really, any Ray Bradbury 'sci-fi') in with A Princess of Mars or Star Wars. Bradbury isn't Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke. He is a fantasy writer who named one of his fantasy kingdoms 'Mars'. His ...

I mentioned in the movies thread that you can get The Martian Chronicles DVD on Amazon for $10.00. Two TV DVD sets that I'm glad I own are: 1 The complete ...

*twiddles thumbs* So...... anyone review any books lately? I just finished Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and wrote a review for it..... *whistles* Yeah..... slow morning.....

... recommendation on the "Recommend a Book" thread (you rock fyrefly!) I started reading - and just finished - Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. One passage in particular really stood out to me: "Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted. The rooms were acrawl with the small ...

... classic, two chick lit/romance novels, a detective mystery and a nonfiction history book. Just started Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles this morning. It's been on my TBR list for ages and after a few fellow Bradbury fans chided me for never having read it, I knew I had to get to it.

That is The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, in particular the story Rocket Summer, January 1999. Read that one far far too many times not to know it.

12. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (259 pages) - I read a version different from the one I have listed in my library because I lent that copy to a student to read.

... was obviously not acceptable... A co-production with Denmark, this film shamelessly steals ideas from Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and manages to waste them utterly. A space ship lands on Uranus, the surface of which transformms into a temperate forest as they touch down. The ...

... The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Son of the Morning by Joyce Carol Oates The Color of Her Panties by Piers Anth ...

... Fiction. I had to read some of Ray Bradbury's short stories for assignments and I've since picked up the rest of The Martian Chronicles. I've fallen in love with his short stories. It's nice to be able to sit down and finish a story in one evening rather than a couple of weeks. Of ...

#90 - The Martian Chronicles is an amazing book! #83 LizT - That's for the suggestion! I'll check it out! Oh my...I'll never get to all the books! Isn't that wonderful!

... Both are historical fiction crossed with fantasy, and both are quite a lot of fun. Also, all that Ray Bradbury and no Martian Chronicles?!? Really?

... 1984 scared the shit out of me, and I'm not sure a sixth grader would really understand the book. I remember reading Martian Chronicles in middle school and being bored out of my mind.

... It's so nice to be able to talk to him about books! I'm really glad you enjoyed the book. By the way, have you read The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I would certainly suggest it if you haven't read it.

2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899). So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...

... There are many other books that I think are very important. Two of those are To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I could go on and on....

... I would appreciate any help you can offer. Here are some of my suggestions: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Red Planet by Robert Heinlein, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells. I thought Ender's Game would work because of the use of ...

83. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 222 pages I have read The Martian Chronicles several times. I find something new each time! 84. The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, 170 pages

I am rereading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I love this book!

... bringing him into the world of adult reading. If you're gong for Ray, I'd personally start with The Illustrated Man or The Martian Chronicles.

I think the measure of the man is Dandelion Wine or The Martian Chronicles. If you do not like them you are not a Bradbury person.

... PQ (French, Spanish (etc.) Literature) 100 Years of Solitude PR (English Literature) Beowulf PS (American Literature) The Martian Chronicles PT (German (etc.) Literature) Momo PZ (Fiction, Juvenile belles lettres) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Q (General Science) The Demon-Haun ...

... (783) Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein (853) The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (676) The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury (678) Snow crash by Neal Stephenson (829 Obviously, popularity isn't the only key to liking a book.

As a kid: Cosmos by Carl Sagan The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinsky Papillon by He ...

... because, while I love it, it becomes really strange and hard to follow at points, and I wouldn't call it sci fi per se. The Martian Chronicles is excellent Bradbury, but could easily be taught as short stories by only using a couple chapters. Farenheit 451 may be the better of his novels ...

The Martian Chronicles. I think I was twelve.

... Scott Card, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Time Machine and War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, and The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. Does anybody have any other suggestions for what I could teach?

When I was 9 or 10, my mother had me borrow The Martian Chronicles from the library. That was it. I was hooked. It helped that my parents, while not big SF readers, enjoyed many classics of the genre. My father even made watching "the new science fiction show called Star Trek" manditory. He's a ...

... Monsarrat Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner The Sea by John Banville Mars and its Canals by P Lovell

... time. The authors and titles I’ve been able to dredge up include: Heinlein: Have Space Suit – Will Travel Bradbury: Martian Chronicles PK Dick: The Man in the High Castle Vonnegut: Sirens of Titan Asimov: Foundation Trilogy Van Vogt: The Voyage of the Space Beagle Something ...

... Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I read The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury every couple of years.

Space by James Michner Earth Abides by George Stewart Lucifer's Hammer Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Star Names

... away at least a dozen copies of Bradbury titles to nieces and nephews: GOLDEN APPLES, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, MARTIAN CHRONICLES, DANDELION WINE. Bradbury brings out the twelve year old boy in all of us. It's GOLDEN APPLES that sticks with me though. In my office, above my ...

... I would dispute some of the titles that you say are sf classics and literary classics, i.e., Stranger in a Strange Land, The Martian Chronicles, Dune, Contact & The Lord of the Rings. I'm not saying that this books don't have merit, I enjoyed two of them (Dune & The Martian Chronicles) ...

... Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's Tale, Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Ursula Leguin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. These last eight ...

... at which paper burns. Oddly enough, it is also the temperature at which I punch you in the face and steal your copy of The Martian Chronicals! HA!

jargoneer - I agree that the majority of Bradbury's work, including The Martian Chronicles, is fantasy. However, in addition to Fahrenheit 451 he has written many short stories that are solidly SF. Though his poetic style and fantasy writings turned off a lot of hard core SF fans early in his ...

... A Tale of Two Cities before tackling his longer works. One of King's influences is Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes). Then, to get into other classics, I would suggest working backwards in time, starting with more modern ...

#9 - I think Bradbury is correct in his self-appraisal. The Martian Chronicles is effectively a fantasy, as there is no attempt to create a scientific rationale. (It could be viewed as a fairy pastoral, with the Martians standing in for mythical creatures). Ironically, it is this lack of science ...

No surprise here - The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.

The Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451 - no doubt!

Fully deserved. Which is your favourite Bradbury book? I like his 1950's work best. The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine and The Illustrated Man

... McCammon "The Gate to Women's Country" by Sheri S. Tepper "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury "The King Awakes" and "The Empty Throne" by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after ...

I've read each of these at least three times: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Little Women by Louise May Alcott I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier T ...

... Catalog On The Road Bright Lights, Big City The Catcher in the Rye Stranger in a Strange Land Catch-22 Martian Chronicles I haven't seen the article, but it seems to me some things are missing. Now I am two years before the boomer generation, but many of us grew up ...

... x Love Story A Confederate General from Big Sur Lord of the Flies x Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me x The Martian Chronicles x Divine Right's Trip I was wondering how many of you have read which books from the list. Those with an 'x' beside them I remember reading. I ...

... written one science fiction book: Fahrenheit 451, because it could technically potentially happen. His other works, like The Martian Chronicles, were proved fantasy from the moment we first saw pictures of the surface of Mars and found that there were no golden civilizations and such ...

... like I must read the entire list simply because it's there. When I looked through the list I immediately thought about The Martian Chronicles. I think it should have been included, but there are too many books there I know nothing about to say what I think should have been left off. After ...

... To Kill a Mockingbird - I laugh, I cry...everytime I read it! (5 times now) I Am the Cheese A Shadow in the Wind The Martian Chronicles The Long Walk by Stephen King (short story)

... n Matilda by Roald Dahl M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Acorna's People, Acorna's Search, and Acorna's World by Anne McCaffrey An Introduction to Theories of Learning by B. R. Herg ...

... Bradbury collections might have stories that were published at different times, yes, but I'd still be interested in when The Martian Chronicles first showed up as a collection vs. what year my edition was published (definitely not first edition). To me, this seems like it's conceptually ...

... cs_top_50_books_list_goes_w.html I had 21/50 for SFBC, and might have had another one if Anne Rice wasn't listed (Martian Chronicles would have been my replacement).

... a year or so ago and found much too dated to enjoy as I had the first time when I was in my early 20s). And what about The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury? It turns out I've read 15 of those posted on the SF Masterworks list (plus 8 on the fantasy list) but only 17 of the list posted by ...

... songs but also some interstitial narration, and when I was 12 or so I started checking the tapes of Ray Bradbury reading The Martian Chronicles out of the library about once a month. The problem was that the loud CLICK when the tape shut off would normally wake me back up... thank goodness ...

... by Madeleine L'Engle The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

... probably expired by now). And from your list I wish I had the Things They Carried, The Left Hand of Darkness, and the Martian Chronicles. And I positively covet the Annotated Alice; I read it a while ago and I wish it was on my bookshelf...My mom owns Something Under the Bed is Drooling ...

... work, and now I'm thinking of Bradbury. So, should I continue on with Babbitt or pick up The Illustrated Man or The Martian Chronicles or Golden Apples of the Sun? How about I get a cup of java while I await your opinions? -Shawn