![]() The martians are an advanced race who have discovered how to harmonise with nature and that the secret to life is simply living. Those stories tell of the destruction of a civilisation and a world by a race that thinks only of itself and destroys through both want and accident, that race being mankind. There is only one word that adequately describes the mood of the mixed short stories that make up Ray Bradbury's martian history THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (or The Silver Locusts if that was the edition that you read) and that word is melancholy. The third found that mankind had already destroyed the civilisation on the planet, but that one man was willing to sacrifice everything to prevent them from desecrating it. The second mission found that Mars was Heaven, but were mistaken. Her jealous husband chose to ensure that he did not. The first mission was foretold by a martian woman with golden eyes who dreamed of a man called York who would promise to take her to his home planet. ![]() Three expeditions went to Mars expecting to find no sign of life. ![]() THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES Episode Guide and reviews on the SCI FI FREAK SITE ![]()
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