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" The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury’s 1940s short stories of a brutal, stark and unforgiving martian landscape were as shocking and visionary as they were insightful. ‘The Martian Chronicles’ tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a pin dot. Those few that survived found no welcome. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up. More rockets arrived from Earth, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them - and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame. "



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The Martian Chronicles are mainly some very loosely connected stories rather than a novel.

I liked some chapters more than others, but I often felt that something was off or that the author was all over the place. My least favorite chapters I think were the ones featuring the native Martians as telepathetic, shape-shifting creatures or as some kind of spirits, while the chapters that were more down to earth (or Mars anyway) kind of showed their age.

I get what Ray Bradbury tried to do and the important themes running through the book, but I feel that from a literary point of view he didn't win me over.

On my opinion this is a disjointed and weird read, timely on some aspects but also quite naive on other aspects and a product of its time.
I feel this hasn't age that well...

Released on Syndagma Square in Athens, by one of the Metro exits.

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