The Martian Chronicles (Audiobook)

from gbsallery

Ray Bradbury's ​The Martian Chronicles​ is a novel of science fiction, set in a future extrapolated from the society of the 1950s. This vision of the future explores both humanity's nature, and its relationship to technology. In doing so, it follows in the tradition of Mary Shelley and Nathaniel ...

from salimbol

A thematically-connected collection of vignettes and short stories about the colonisation of Mars. Always lyrical, it veers between poignancy and a marvellous evocation of place on the one hand, and being clunkily didactic and glaringly dated on the other.

from LisaMaria_C

One of Bradbury's rare novels (Fahrenheit 451 is another), my memory of it from my read decades ago as a teen was that it was amazing. On reread I feel its age shows. The Chronicles are a series of 26 vignettes first published in 1950 with two stories going back to 1948 and it's as if it took the...

from marcoguarda

Bradbury considered himself a man who "graduated from library."The respect for the books which taught him was so deep the theme of the barbarity of burning them returns obsessively in both "Fahrehheit 451" and in "Usher II," from "The Martian Chronicles," a collection of short stories.The books h...

from elbakerone

I've often stated that Ray Bradbury could write a shopping list in such a way that it would be a captivating read and The Martian Chronicles, one of his earliest works, affirms this view in my mind. Far more interesting than "milk, eggs, bread", the novel is in fact a series of short stories, som...