The Martian Chronicles

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles,a seminal work in Ray BradburyΓÇÖs careerwhose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by timeΓÇÖs passage. In The Martian ChroniclesRay BradburyAmericaΓÇÖs preeminent storytellerimagines a place of hopedreamsand metaphorΓÇöof crystal pillars and fossil seasΓÇöwhere a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanisheddevastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by itlulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarityand enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancientmysterious native race. In this classic work of fictionBradbury exposes our ambitionsweaknessesand ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong.