Cronicas Marcianas

by Ray Bradbury

No cover — Ray Bradbury: Cronicas Marcianas (Paperback, Portuguese language)

Paperback, 312 pages

Portuguese language

ISBN:: 978-84-9782-129-2
OCLC Number:: 433112211

(187 reviews)

This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the colonists determine to build a new Earth on Mars.

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Wilfredo Flores reviewed The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Review of 'The Martian Chronicles' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Favorite book, ever.

nicknicknicknick reviewed The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Review of 'The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)' on Goodreads

4 stars

1) ''It wouldn't be right, the first night on Mars, to make a loud noise, to introduce such a strange, silly bright thing like a stove. That would be a kind of imported blasphemy. There'd be time for that later; time to throw condensed-milk cans in the proud Martian canals; time for copies of the New York Times to blow and caper and rustle across the lone gray Martian sea bottoms; time for banana peels and pic-nic papers in the fluted, delicate ruins of the old Martian valley towns. Plenty of time for that.''

2) '''On the contrary, those are God symbols, symbols of life. Man had become too much man and not enough animal on Mars too. And the men of Mars realized that in order to survive they would have to forgo asking that one question any longer: Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible. The Martians realized that they asked the question 'Why live at all?' at the height of some period of war and despair, when there was no answer. But once the civilization calmed, quieted, and wars ceased, the question became senseless in a new way. Life was now good and needed no arguments.'''

3) ''The old Martian names were names of water and air and hills. They were the names of snows that emptied south in stone canals to fill the empty seas. And the names of sealed and buried sorcerers and towers and obelisks. And the rockets struck at the names like hammers, breaking away the marble into shale, shattering the crockery milestones that named the old towns, in the rubble of which great pylons were plunged with new names: IRON TOWN, STEEL TOWN, ALUMINUM CITY, ELECTRIC VILLAGE, CORN TOWN, GRAIN VILLA, DETROIT II, all the mechanical names and the metal names from Earth.
And after the towns were built and named, the graveyards were built and named, too: Green Hill, Moss Town, Boot Hill, Bide a Wee; and the first dead went into their graves...''

4) ''It was the twentieth year after the Great War. Mars was a tomb planet. Whether or not Earth was the same was a matter for much silent debate for Hathaway and his family on the long Martian nights.
This night one of the violent Martian dust storms had come over the low Martian graveyards, blowing through ancient towns and tearing away the plastic walls of the newer, American-built city that was melting down into the sand, desolated.''

Curtis reviewed The Martian chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Review of 'The Martian chronicles' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I will take this opportunity to once again reiterate that Bradbury is at his best when keeps his stories tightly focused. These incisive imaginings are incredible, and he rises to the challenge of offering us a world that is familiar-yet-strange. It's impossible not to feel feel the heavier air at the bottom of the uncanny valley every other page or so.

I remember reading "There Will Come Soft Rains" in high school, and having now read the rest of the Chronicles, it remains one of my favorites. Add to that "The Earth Men," "Usher II," "The Off Season" and "—And the Moon Be Still as Bright" ("We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things") to get my top five favorites. However, all of these stories are great, as is the thread twining them all together.

Manzabar reviewed The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Review of 'The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Many of the stories show their age badly, but there are some real gems in here. In particular, I was fond of "Usher II" & "There Will Come Soft Rains".

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Review of 'The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Having read some science fiction now, and seen movies about martian travel all my life, this book was a refreshing new perspective on the red planet. Bradbury writes naieve superficial stories that skim the surface of the fantasy world that mars must have seemed to readers in the early part of last century. Having now seen actual video recorded on the surface of the planet it has lost much of it's luster in recent years. But in Bradbury's world it is stage to extraterrestrial, as well as racial and cultural conflict; home to shape shifting psychics, and american mavericks and hermits. The picture he paints is one that seems more like the American southwest complete with disenfranchised natives, than the Mars we see in popular culture today. I found this book immensely entertaining for it's commentary on the human condition, not for it's futurism.

Daniel Andrlik reviewed The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Review of 'The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I first read this book in middle school, and it was one of my first introductions to Ray Bradbury's writing. It's a magical work, really a collection of short stories, but as always it's Bradbury's thorough understanding of human nature that sets him apart. Well, that and his prose. I could die a happy man if I ever wrote something that affected people as profoundly as Bradbury's work affects me.