These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame. People brought their old prejudices with them - and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. More rockets arrived from Earth, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. His enduring novels, novelized story cycles, and story collections include The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), Fahrenheit 451 (1953), The October Country (1955), Dandelion Wine (1957), A Medicine for Melancholy (1959), and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962). The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up. Those few that survived found no welcome. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a pin dot. The Ray Bradbury Theater, a TV series for which he adapted sixty-five of his stories. 'The Martian Chronicles' tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's 1940s short stories of a brutal, stark and unforgiving martian landscape were as shocking and visionary as they were insightful. The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name.
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