The martian chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller with-out peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. The Mars he imagines in these masterful chronicles 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. Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraor-dinary power and imagination remain undimmed by times passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grand master once again enthralls, delights, and challenges us with his visión and heart—starkly expos-ing in brilliant spacelight our strength, weakness, folly, and poignant humanity in a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong. In a career spanning more than seven-ty years, RAY BRADBURY inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and cióse to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works inelude Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dan-delion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribu-tion to American Letters, the National Medal of Arts, and the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.