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The Martian Chroniclesby Ray Bradbury (signed)Illustrated by Joseph MugnianiIntroduction by Damon Knight (signed label)Easton Press Collectors EditionDescription: Leatherbound hardback book published by Easton Press. Bound in top grade red leather with 22kt gold lettering and cover artwork. Hubbed spine, acid neutral paper with page edges gilded, and a satin ribbon book mark sewn in. Certificate of authenticity, collectors note and unused publisher supplied bookplate laid in (not attached). Originally issued by Easton Press signed by only the author on a special signature page without inscription or personalization, we have also gotten this copy signed as follows: Label signed by the introduction writer without inscription or personalization applied to the last page of the introduction. Nine full page color illustrations plus additional partial page black and white illustrations.We have more books autographed by Ray Bradbury for sale, to see a list, Autographed Ray Bradbury items for saleSynopsis: A new introduction by Damon Knight, plus the stories "The Fire Balloons" and "The Wilderness," have been added to this updated, revised edition of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, while the story "Way in the Middle of the Air" has been cut. In addition, the date associated with each story in the book has been shifted 31 years into the future, as the earlier editions would have had humans reaching Mars by 1999.The brown-skinned, yellow-eyed people of Mars live a beautiful, peaceful life rich with art, music, and philosophy, until the humans from Earth land on their planet and attempt to colonize it in this classic collection of linked short stories. The planet Mars acts as a mirror to the worst (and, very occasionally, the best) of humanity--sometimes literally, as when the telepathic Martians masquerade as the humans' long-dead relatives. Eventually, the humans are defeated, both on Mars and on Earth, by their own weaknesses. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES is not hard SF in any sense. It's a poetic, mythic vision of Mars, as Percival Lowell might have imagined it to be when he saw shadows through his telescope and thought they were canals. And it's a series of vignettes about real people who react in very familiar ways in a strange place. As Bradbury describes it, he was attempting to write WINESBURG, OHIO, set on Mars.Publisher's Note: Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamor of an ancient, mysterious native race.Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningl... read more

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