Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. OverDrive Product Record sortTitle Martian Chronicles crossRefId 2475608 images 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. 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. 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.

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. First a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn. Of crystal pillars and fossil seas, where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor. Each wave different, and each wave stronger.

Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves.

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