The Martian Chronicles
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...show more
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Since I tag all the books I read, and I added a bunch of books I read pre-Goodreads, I know that I've read a little over a 100 science fiction books. This one had so many ideas and such a different approach than others I've read - and it was really good! I'll be thinking about many of these stories for a long time.
People rave about Ray Bradbury, and this novel in particular, so I wanted to read it. I am glad that I now have, but his writing style is not one of my favourites. This was, however, an interesting and thought-provoking read. It is true that Bradbury’s ideas and concepts were way ahead of his time. It is humorous, though, how some of his imaginings of the future are spot on (a house with an “Alexa” and robot vacuum cleaners) and some are just lud...read more
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