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Martian Chronicles

By Ray Bradbury

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780553246919

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Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much Continue

Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.

Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

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    "What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people.
    And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain.
    And, going further, what did Time look like? Time looked like snow dropping     ... (continue)

    "What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people.
    And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain.
    And, going further, what did Time look like? Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, one hundred million faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing.
    That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded."

    E non c'è null'altro da aggiungere

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    Amazing. Moving. The new fronteer is up in the space, but the human race never changes: a bunch of wonderful tales concerning the depths of man's soul, facing his fears and loneliness.
    Bradbury is a definitely a master.

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    Orso Paziente said on Sep 27, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • "There's your answer, Captain."
    "I don't see"
    "The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals.
    The animal does not question life.
    It lives.
    Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life. You see -the statuary, the animal symbols, again and again. ... (continue)

    "There's your answer, Captain."
    "I don't see"
    "The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals.
    The animal does not question life.
    It lives.
    Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life. You see -the statuary, the animal symbols, again and again."
    "It looks pagan"
    "On the contrary, those are god symbols, symbols of life.
    Man had become too much man and not enough animal on Mars too. And the men of Mars realized that in order to survive they would have to forgo asking that one question any longer: why live?
    Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
    The Martians realized that they asked the question 'why live at all?' at the height of some period of war and despair, when there was no answer.
    But once the civilization calmed, quieted, and wars ceased, the question became senseless in a new way.
    Life was good and needed no arguments."

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    Zapp Brannigan said on Apr 23, 2009 | Add your feedback

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