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The Martian Chronicles is a haunting collection of short stories that chronicles humankind's colonization of Mars.

Bradbury opens the volume with tales of the first three Mars expeditions, all of which meet with disaster, and goes on to relate the gradual encroachment of human—and, in particular, American— civilization on Earth's neighboring planet. In a style that is concise yet poetic, Bradbury sketches the lives and aspirations of various individuals who...

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The Martian Chronicles

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury While Ray Bradbury (1920) is best known as a science-fiction writer, no one genre adequately subsumes all of his work. Bradbury is at once deeply inte... Read more

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Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury (born 1920) was among the first authors to combine the concepts of science fiction with a sophisticated prose style. Often described as economical yet poetic, Bradbury's fiction conveys a... Read more

Ray Bradbury

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Biography EssayAlthough Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and although his stories and themes have permeated all areas of American culture as have those of no... Read more

Ray (Douglas) Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer who has unjustly suffered from critical neglect. In a sense he has been the victim of a genre. To consider his work as "science fiction" or "fantasy"--no matter h... Read more

Ray (Douglas) Bradbury

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[This entry was updated by Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 16-33.]Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the ... Read more

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The Martian Chronicles In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury manages to connect several of the novel`s themes with historical events, a poem written by Sara Teasdale (included in the novel), and c... Read more

The Martian Chronicles

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The Martian Chronicles, written by Ray Bradbury, is about man's journey to Mars written in many short stories. Each story tells a different perspective of the new frontier and Ray Bradbury's view of h... Read more

Fiction and Fantasy in "The Martian Chronicles"

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There are many things in The Martian Chronicles that could easily be considered "possible";. In that same aspect, however, many of the happenings in The Martian Chronicles are indubitably fantasy, and... Read more

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