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Re: The Martian Chronicles (was Re: SF: Book recommendations)

From John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject Re: The Martian Chronicles (was Re: SF: Book recommendations)
Date 2026-02-02 13:05 -0800
Organization A place where nothing fits quite right
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 15:05:20 -0500
The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Definitely =^_^= Finally crossed "The Martian Chronicles" off my
> > to-do list last year; "There Will Come Soft Rains" has long been a
> > favorite, but there's just a *pile* of other good stuff in there.  
> 
> The one I can't forget is "Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed." "Mars Is 
> Heaven!" was also pretty memorable. 
> 
> It's interesting that they're not all set on the same Mars, or at
> least they don't appear to be. 

I think they're meant to be. It was written as a fix-up novel combining
new material with previously-published stories of Bradbury's, revised
to fit; there are some seams visible here and there, but a reasonably
coherent narrative throughline.

"-And The Moon Be Still As Bright" and "Way In The Middle Of The Air"
are stories that I really wish didn't still feel as timely as they do.

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