The Martian Chronicles

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Bradbury, Ray, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / Classic / Bradbury, Ray
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction / Bradbury, Ray	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / Classic / Bradbury, Ray	4-week checkout	Due 05-23-2024

The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by humans who want to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.

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if you only know that from middle school english, re-read this as grown up submitted by hathaway1066 on July 14, 2014, 7:13pm This is accessible and worthy as an assigned item in a middle or lower-high school english class, and might be dismissed on that basis, but it's really got a solid, deep content to it that says as much or more to an adult reader as to an younger mind. The stories in it will stick with you and you'll want to put it in your kid/niece or nephew's/etc. hands...just as your english did teacher wanted to do so with you.

Magical submitted by jschlef on June 14, 2022, 1:31pm A beautiful and heart wrenching novel about the colonization of mars and the joining of earthlings and martians.

A Great Story with Many Examples of Bradbury’s Use of Descriptive Sensory Language submitted by OlfactoryBookworm on July 21, 2022, 10:21pm This:
“There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. 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 look like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight-Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck-tonight you could almost taste time.”
—Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles