Sunsets, Stars, West, Wind
All of these suggestions make sense … good common sense. Wonder if Thomas Paine would agree.
Oh and I treat my email like I would a post card. Just saying.
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Recommended by the GoodReads SciFi/Fantasy Book Club August 2009 Selection
Read in August, 2009
Synopsis (courtesy Wikipedia):
The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. The stories were loosely woven together with a series of short, interstitial vignettes for publication.
My Thoughts:
This collection of stories about Mars reminded me of Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. But where Burroughs entertained with adventures and action, Bradbury expounded on various themes, mostly anti-war and anti-establishment.
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