The Martian Chronicles (Hardcover)

from jonbrammer

Reading classic science fiction usually devolves to a game of "spot the allegory". Bradbury doesn't disappoint in that respect - he tries to capture all of the fissures in American society by transplanting them to Mars. The main thrust of the narrative is a critique of manifest destiny, the Ameri...

from mykl-s

Bradbury was the one science fiction author I read in the 1950s who had mainstream literary credentials. Though he was viewed differently from the other writers I loved, I could not understand what set him apart.

from librisissimo

A set of short stories that make a coherent "novel" of episodic nature.

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 quondame

I could not get past the male-centric blue-eyed American (US) nostalgia for a never-never middle American life. And the stories seemed to careen between caustic eyed views of human destructiveness and romantic flights of fancy. Oh, and women are the barest afterthought. Still there is something, ...