Martian Chronicles

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Summary: The greatest book of all time!
Review: I think that all of Bradbury's books that I have read are fantastic! Bradbury has a way of telling every little detail. This book was my favorite book of all time. I have currently read it for a third time. And I still feel like I'm on Mars interacting with the Martians. I am also reading now "Illustrated Man" which is also great so far.

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Summary: Good Collection of Short Stories
Review: Ray Bradbury did an excellent job in this collection of short stories. Each story written at different periods of his career reflect human emotions and the human urge to explore. Definitely not meant to be read as a novel though. It is one of the best eerie works of fiction I've read. Especially good stories were "-and the moon be still as bright" and "the martian." Bradbury has similar stories like the Illustrated Man and Dandelion Wine.

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Summary: Greatest writer in the Universe. Period.
Review: A work of science-fiction genius! Certainly better than most S/F written today. Often imitated, never duplicated. A fine gem! Completely original, undoubtedly entertaining.

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Summary: Greatest SF Work Ever
Review: I find it hard to believe that there are several negative reviews about this great book. Perhaps these critics should lay off the Stupid Pills...

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Summary: ineteresting book, i enjoyed it very much
Review: The book was a collection of short stories about earth's attempts to land men on mars. I liked it because it was broken down into stories which allowed easy flowing reading, and made the book seem to go by page after page faster when you knew it was just a short story. The stories were all unique and really cool. I'm glad that of the few books I have ever read, that this one was one of them. :o)

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Summary: This book gets you involved.
Review: I liked it because it took a look at human nature

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Summary: A WONDERFUL JOURNEY
Review: 50's Science fiction at its Best

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Summary: A journey into one man's imagination of a future Mars...
Review: at a brief point in my life when I was interested in astronomy and otherworldly planets, this was among one of my favorite books to read in high school instead of listening to my boring teachers. This collection of Bradbury's short stories are quite far fetched from being even remotely possible, which is what makes this book unique in it's own way mixing the fantastic and the sci-fi-istic (is there such a word? now there is :) and sometimes the horrific. Some of the short stories are chained together, usually containing the same characters but all have their own struggles and quarrels. What also makes this Mars-fic book unique is how Bradbury put most of Earth's worst problems on Mars--genocide, pollution, religious fanaticism, greed, censorship, racism, war... you name it. Yet Bradbury also confronts these harrowing realities/possibilities with a glimmer of hope, without being phony about it (as in, he took subjects seriously in this book, instead of making it a mindless action-packed-explosions-and-stunts story. Jules Verne is smiling in his grave). and yes, The Martian Chronicles contains the same style of vivid imagery and mental paintings that Bradbury is well known for. The only complaint I have is that I remember a couple stories I had to read 2 or 3 times before I could understand what's going on. overall, this is a classic piece of literature from an era when it seemed that -everyone- wrote about Mars, only what makes this different is that Bradbury put thought and effort into this work.

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Summary: One My Favorite Writer's Best Works
Review: This is one of the most visually stimulating pieces of work I've ever read. It's good from the first chapter to the end.

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Summary: An accurate science fiction with haunting similarities
Review: Ray Bradbury creates a post-war outlook of the colonization of the Red Planet while at the same time creating an image of military and political upsettings on Earth that ultimately end with a third world war and the decimation of two races.