Robert Reads

Sean, The Martian Chronicles is an easy book for kids, but also hard. It uses lots of styles and genres to tell its many short stories. These stories are all a little different, in part, since Bradbury wrote them at different times and for the scifi magazines that were the main place to publish scifi. So, The Martian Chronicles is really a collection of short stories around an idea: the colonization of Mars by humans.

Here are some links that might help you develop a deeper appreciation for the book:

http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_lamonintor.html

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/martian_chronicles.html

http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/martian/


http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_nyt_mag.html

http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_county.html