The Martian Chronicles

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

L'escriptor nord-americà Ray Bradbury (Waukegan, Illinois, 1920 - Los Angeles, 2012) ha estat autor de novel-la curta i d'assaig, dramaturg, guionista i poeta, i va escriure dos clàssics de ciència ficció: Fahrenheit 451, una crítica mordaç de la censura en un món que té prohibida la paraula, i Les cròniques marcianes, sobre uns primers intents terrestres de colonitzar Mart, de conseqüències inesperades.Un dels més grans i famosos escriptors nord-americans, en part responsable de l'imaginari col-lectiu que la gent del segle XX es va fer sobre el segle XXI.