Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. Each wave different, and each wave stronger. Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. The Mars he imagines in these masterful chronicles 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. 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 grand master once again enthralls, delights, and challenges us with his vision and heart—starkly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, weakness, folly, and poignant humanity in a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

Udgivet af Harper Collins Publishers U.K. 

Ray Bradbury
Amerikansk forfatter. Denne mand er en af de forfatter I USA som er mest anerkendt for sine noveller, simpelthen fordi han ikke har skrevet særlig mange romaner i sin lange karriere. Blandt de mest kendte af hans bøger er "The Martian Chronicles", en samling historier om Mars og den civilization der er eller var på der. Bradbury's historier er næsten altid historier som har en eller anden bizar ingrediens I en normal verden. "Fahrenheit 451", om et dystopisk samfund blev filmatiseret af den franske instruktør Francios Trauffaut. Bradbury skrev også selv manus til filmatiseringen af Melvilles "Moby Dick. Blandt hans seneste bøger kan nævnes "From the Dust Returned" og "Let's All Kill Constance." Ray Bradbury døde 91 år gammel d. 5 juni 2012.