and then is conquered "by" it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including "Fahrenheit 451" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes " essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays "The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, " and numerous other superb short story collections. "The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. Each wave different, and each wave stronger. "Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave.
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