Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of 20th-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. 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. First a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn.
Of crystal pillars and fossil seas, where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization.
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor. Each wave different, and each wave stronger. Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves.
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