The Martian Chronicles (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Short stories
- 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
In the 1940's, Bradbury had established himself as a highly popular short-story writer. When a Doubleday editor encouraged him to try connecting some of his stories into a unified, novelistic collection, Bradbury quickly responded with The Martian Chronicles, a group of stories about people from Earth colonizing Mars.
The idea of the colonization of Mars had long fascinated Bradbury. When he produced The Martian Chronicles, he had published more than ten Martian stories, and he continued to produce more after the book was published. This book became the first of...
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