The Martian Chronicles is a very good book. Written in 1950, it tells the story of the future of mars. Taken from many different view points. The imagery is amazing and the stories are exciting and unique. This book chronicles the human civilization of Mars from 1999 to 2026. BUT IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1950. Ray Bradbury has am amazing imagination. He uses other authors works in one story called USHER II. In this part of the story, a man who is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe, builds a mansion on mars but not before destroying every living thing on the plant first. Each room in this mansion with its own story from Edgar Allan Poe. The creator of the mansion invites every delegates from earth who voted for the burning of all books in 1975. This was called The Great Fire. One by one he brings them to their own room. He bricks one man up in the wall while quoting Poe's lines. Another woman is strapped to a table with a pendelum swinging above her just as it is in The Pit and the Pendelum. And at midnight, the clock rings an the red death comes.
In another chapter, a very short chapter. Bradbury explains how all of the old people from earth fly to mars. Throughout this entire book. The reader feels as if he or she is actually on mars. Waiting off on a hill, watching all of this happen. Bradbury digs into the soul of man and shows what is happening to the world we live in as we speak. This book is a prediciion, a fore telling tha if we dont recongnize what we are doing to our planet and our fellow human beings. We will only succed in ruining our lives and planet.
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