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A mix of stories in the fantastic tone typical of Bradbury loosely based around Mars. I snjoy the descriptions, it is not always believable, the characters are sometimes caricatures. Great writing but not solid in the science of sci-fi. ( ) ((1958)A collection of tales about earth men going to Mars to find it inhabited by various types of Martians. But man being man, Earth is destroyed and the remnants of man escapes to Mars to become Martians.KIRKUS REVIEWA flight of fancy in time and space which transcribes some incidents which take place on the planet of Mars, there's a literary, visionary quality here and an avoidance of the more mechanistic aspects of this medium. From the first expeditions from the earth in rocket ships, to the first settlements, this projects the war to come in which the earth is almost totally destroyed, and the return to Mars- now a wasted, lonely land, by some of its survivors. None of the complexities of concepts or formulae, this has an imaginative rather than technical ingenuity.Pub Date: May 4th, 1950ISBN: 0380973839Page count: 259ppReview Posted Online: March 20th, 2012Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1st, 1950 CW: Racism, Racial Slurs, Animal Harm I truly don't know what to say. This book is unlike anything else I have ever read and, outside of a few obvious elements, feels incredibly modern and relevant. So much so that I genuinely struggle to understand that it was first published in 1950. A collection of various connected stories about human beings visiting and living in the Red Planet that follow on from one another in an increasing timeline that describes the beginning and end of exploration and settling on Mars. These are told on Bradbury's unique blend of genres to create expressive, emotive, baffling, and heart-wrenching scenes. When I first read Dandelion Wine, I knew I adored Bradbury's imagination and magically poetic prose, and would have to read everything I could get my hands on. Unfortunately, Dandelion Wine was a LOT and left me very ambivalent about that book, if not Bradbury's writing, so I took a long break and came back with this. I could not have chosen a more perfect book to come back to! I really am struggling to articulate how or why these stories are so good and have left a profound impression on me. It is certainly somewhat to do with the chimeral, alchemical oddity that is the way Bradbury writes and surreality of the concepts and conceit he pays with. This isn't a science fiction short story anthology. Not really. Science fiction is one element, but horror, especially gothic horror, tragedy, drama, melodrama, military, absurdism, political commentary, come together with so much more in an occult blend that doesn't necessarily scare, but assaults the mental senses from every possible angle like an iron maiden filled with silverfish . Of course, all those elements and genres often come together in many other works, but there is just something so unsettling and otherworldly about the way Bradbury does it. It would be easy to reference things like The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, but just because it's bizarre and sci-fi related doesn't mean it does a thing to describe what this is like. I know several of the stories were adapted for shows like this, but I'm trying to imagine a way of turning Bradbury's writing into film and I can't do it. I know there are various adaptations and I'm sure some must be decent, but Bradbury is an author who is talented at narrative for sure, but he really shines in the lyrical, dreamlike, exacting unreality of his turns of phrases. I am increasingly finding it difficult to believe that Ray Bradbury was a human being born on this planet when and living the life his biographers and Wikipedia page claim. Only a space wizard from another galaxy and dimension, hurled back through time and space to our world would think and write like this. This book was a cry for help, but, much like Tommy Cooper, when he most needed our help we just gave him a round of applause. This is truly weird, wonderful, and every other positive and strange adjective between here and Mars. I absolutely need to seek out the complete edition with The Other Martian Tales and get back to Bradbury once I have a few other things off my TBR shortlist. I want to say more, but I can't because if I do I will never stop. This is without a doubt one to the most uniquely exquisite books I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
"Die Mars-Chroniken" von Ray Bradbury ist ein klassischer Science-Fiction-Roman, der eine Reihe miteinander verbundener Kurzgeschichten enthält, die auf dem Mars spielen. Die Erzählung erstreckt sich über mehrere Jahrzehnte und schildert die Kolonisierung der Menschheit und die Interaktion mit den mysteriösen Marsianern. In den Geschichten werden Themen wie Kolonisierung, kulturelle Auseinandersetzungen und die Auswirkungen menschlichen Verhaltens sowohl auf der Erde als auch auf dem Mars behandelt. Bradburys poetische und stimmungsvolle Prosa schildert die Wunder und Fallstricke der Erkundung sowie die Folgen von Missverständnissen zwischen Erdbewohnern und Marsbewohnern. Der Roman reflektiert über Themen wie Krieg, technologischen Fortschritt und die Zerbrechlichkeit von Zivilisationen. Während sich die menschliche Präsenz auf dem Mars entfaltet, sind die Marsianer vom Aussterben bedroht, und ihre uralte Kultur zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die Chroniken. "Die Mars-Chroniken" werden für ihren lyrischen Schreibstil, ihren sozialen Kommentar und ihre fantasievolle Darstellung einer Zukunft gefeiert, die Fragen über die Beziehung der Menschheit zu ihrer Umwelt und zu sich selbst aufwirft. Belongs to Publisher SeriesCaminho de Bolso (15) detebe (240/1) — 25 more Gallimard, Folio SF (45) Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy (3410 / 5201) Lanterne (L 371) Mirabilia (7) Mirabilia (7) Máj (20) Nébula (88) Gli Oscar [Mondadori] (195) Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (9058) Science Fiction Book Club (2150) ハヤカワ・SF・シリーズ (3047) ハヤカワ文庫 NV (114) ハヤカワ文庫 SF (1764) 最新科学小説全集 (10) Is contained inFahrenheit 451 - The Illustrated Man - Dandelion Wine - The Golden Apples of the Sun & the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury ContainsHas the adaptationHas as a student's study guideDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But 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. 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 twentieth-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. .No library descriptions found.
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