![]() ![]() ![]() I liked that the main character was the setting, Mars. Can you tell what my favorite decade is?) This says to me that Bradbury inspired all the Twilight Zone reruns I watched as a child. (For the record, I’ve typed 1920 when trying to put a year every time. It goes to show how cutting edge Bradbury’s book is because it was published in 1950. To me, Martians and aliens had a very 1970s feel and wasn’t something I was interested in. I ended up liking this book a lot more than I thought I would from the description. In the end, another World War starts on Earth and everyone goes home, leaving a stranded few on Mars for the forseeable future as rocket technology is wiped out on Earth. Subsequent stories talk about human adjustment to life on the new planet from how they change it to be more like Earth, the relationship with those back on Earth, and interactions with the native Martians. The book starts off with the four successive exploratory missions of human spacemen to Mars to see if the planet is fit to inhabit. The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories that Bradbury wrote focusing on the human colonization of Mars. Well, I listened to it, but I think that counts still. ![]() I’ve never been much of one for science fiction, but our facilitator said she’d have me read a science fiction book by the time she was through with me and she succeeded. ![]()
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