The Martian Chronicles
Linked stories of the settlement of Mars, written as elegy rather than as engineering.
Bradbury’s linked stories follow the settlement of Mars across a few decades: the expeditions that fail, the colonists who arrive, the Martians who were there first and are gone. Written when Mars was still a place for dreaming, it is elegiac rather than technical, about arrival and loss, and about what the settlers brought with them that they should have left behind.
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Orson Scott Card
When he went to space in The Martian Chronicles, it was already well-known that Mars was nearly or completely lifeless. It didn’t matter. He was writing about the Mars of the dreams of children growing up in the 1930s, the Mars that Edgar Rice Burroughs had written about. Bradbury’s martian stories are infused with tragedy, lost dreams, ancient glories and hope resurgent.
Interview · October 2011
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