Just forget everything you know today about life on Mars and immerse yourself in a mesmerising analysis of human nature. Consequently, nuclear armament and annihilation are the prominent drivers of the story in the background.īradbury's poetic language sometimes runs away with him but make no mistake, this is an utterly compelling read. Don't forget, this was written in 1950 with the horrors of the Second World War and Hiroshima/Nagasaki still very vividly on everyone's mind. What the book is about is mankind's tendency to blight its achievements by prejudice, destructiveness and the undying believe that we are the best thing that's ever happened to this universe (despite all the examples to the contrary). The Ray Bradbury Theater, a TV series for which he adapted sixty-five of his stories. The author never even touches on technical details and apart from rockets everything else he uses to furnish his story is reliably mid-twentieth century American stuff, from wooden houses to food. Mars and interplanetary travel really are just backdrops or plot tools. Dicks or Isaac Asimovs of the writing world might be disappointed. Therefore, anyone inclined towards the Philip K. There, like in so many comments, he was described as one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time but The Martian Chronicles is no such thing. His more than five hundred published worksshort stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verseexemplify the American imagination at its most creative. I have to admit that I came to Ray Bradbury very late, in fact only because I read his obituary. From Ray Bradbury’s Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, 2007 ‘Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think.
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