Book - the martian chronicles

Book- TheMartian chronicles

Author: Ray Bradbury

Score: 10/10

Year:  1951. (reprint 2012)

Publisher : Simon and Schuster 

ISBN : 978-1-4516-7819-2

241 pages 

Language : English. 

This Is a collection of 17 short Bradbury chronicles from 1950, which can be read independently, yet form chapters of this novel, a symbol of human existence, wars, the fear of the atom bomb, through tales of human settling on Mars in the years 1999 to 2026.

My favorite stories are ''the Green morning'', in which Benjamin Driscoll plants trees everywhere on Mars, which I found to be rather poetic and endearing, and ''night meeting'' between a human and a Martian, ''the silent towns'' with the last man and last woman on Mars... 

But the rest are also very good stories, some very short (less than a page) and some much longer.

I enjoyed very much the ending to each chronicle, often with a note of humor ;

in ''the million year picnic'' but before you rush to read it, I do suggest reading the entire chronological chronicles at least once...

A note of interest : you'll have to find out if your copy has the original dates, or if they have been altered, as this is a 1951 book and that some editions have pushed the dates further because of the future which now has become our past...

I think it's important to read the original, unaltered version out of respect to Ray Bradbury's creation, even tho it doesn't ''really'' have much of an importance in itself (ie the stories could be set at any point in time, as they are symbols).

PS : This book was re-released with changed dates. The original are as stated above, 1999-2026.