![]() Today, he's got multiple space objects named after him-an asteroid, a crater on the moon, a landing site on Mars. ![]() So Bradbury went very quickly from a science fiction writer who would be read by science fiction fans and no one else to one of America's greatest short story writers. And with a bunch of stories about people trying to explore and colonize Mars, The Martian Chronicles didn't seem poised to change that.īut The Martian Chronicles got a positive review from Christopher Isherwood, who was a Very Serious Novelist. When this book first came out, in 1950, it was published as science fiction, a genre that didn't get much respect at the time (see " Genre" for more about that). It was The Martian Chronicles that put Bradbury on the map. We're talking timeless literature, here.Īlong with Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles is the best-known and most-loved book by Ray Bradbury. ![]() It's about racial prejudice, colonization, the devastation of war, the struggle between men and women, and, most of all, the triumph of the human spirit. Thing is, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles isn't really about Mars. (Or that our cars are still firmly on the ground in 2015.) The problem with setting your science fiction book in a definite future-in, say, 1999-is that it's kind of a bummer to get to 1999 and realize that we still haven't landed people on Mars. ![]()
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