The Martian Chronicles (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Plot: Science fiction/fantasy
- Time of Work: 1999-2026
- Setting: The planet Mars and the United States
- Principal Characters:
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Colonies or colonization, Twentieth century, Extrasensory perception or powers, Extraterrestrial life, Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Twenty-first century, Human race, Earth, Atomic bomb, Chicken pox, Immunity, Mars
- Locales: United States, Mars
The Novel
Though The Martian Chronicles consists of chronologically arranged stories and sketches having to do with the exploration and colonization of Mars at the end of the twentieth century, Ray Bradbury has provided enough unity to justify calling the work a novel. The book contains fourteen stories and twelve sketches, though one might dispute the proper classification for a long sketch, “The Musicians,” about children playing among the dried corpses of dead Martians, and for the brief story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” about the death of a mechanized...
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