Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of Americas most beloved authors. In a much-celebrated literary career that has spanned seven decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work unforgettable novels, essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays, and numerous superb short-story collections, including The Martian Chronicles masterfully rendered stories of Earths settlement of the fourth world from the sun.Bradburys Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphorof crystal pillars and fossil seaswhere a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learnfirst a trickle, then a torrent rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow.
