Simon & Schuster The Martian Chronicles

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Excelente libro, muy entretenido y de lectura ligera. El tipo de papel es el que no te lastima para nada la vista y el tamaño de letra es adecuado. 10/10

Arrived quickly and in perfect condition. Very happy with my purchase!

I love this book ! It's dreamy and scary and makes our travel !

This is not hard science fiction: no technical explanations of space travel, planetary astrophysics, etc. This is a mixture of fantasy; lyrical, almost poetic descriptions; penetrative character studies. Some of the chapters / stories follow unexpected paths: prepare to be surprised. Themes? - take your pick: historical determinism, difficulties of communication between cultures, the emotional darkness than can overcome and distort. Above all, beautifully written.

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury is an interconnected thread of short stories written in the form of a novel. Though it is categorised as Science fiction, having dealt with space travel, telepathy, high-end technologies, alien encounter, it is more than just that! After it's release in 1950, when Aldous Huxley read this book, he insisted Bradbury that this book is more poetic than Sci-fi. And that's what most of the readers who read it felt, including me. Such an astounding and magnificent read it is! . Each of the short stories has depicted well about human's attempt to colonize the red planet, Mars. A few expeditions failed, while some did succeed which in turn lead to other mishaps. Bradbury brilliantly describes human tendency of wanting to gain power and dominate the other race, written in a strange and poetic manner. The writing is so whimsical that it makes you question over human existence... Spellbinding! ✨ The whole point of the novel sums up in these quotes ⤵ "We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." “Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines. Wars got bigger and bigger and finally killed Earth. That!” "They'll be flopping their filthy atom bombs here, fighting for bases to have wars. Isn't it enough that they ruined one planet without ruining another? Do they have to foul someone else's manger? Simple minded windbags!" I enjoyed this novel much more than his Fahrenheit 451 and I'm looking forward to read more of his works. Highly recommend this novel to all of you who are reading this!