The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage, is available from Simon & Schuster for the first time. In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines 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 vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong. |
Contents
Rocket Summer | 1 |
The Summer Night | 18 |
The Taxpayer | 40 |
and the Moon Be Still as Bright | 63 |
The Settlers | 95 |
The Shore | 114 |
Usher II | 137 |
The Old Ones | 157 |
The Luggage Store | 174 |
The Watchers | 191 |
The Long Years | 207 |
There Will Come Soft Rains | 220 |
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