Bradbury doesn’t dwell on the Martian technology nor describe how it works. The Martian Chronicles certainly has some SF surface trappings, and the tale “ There Will Come Soft Rains” (a haunting story about the aftermath of an atomic war) probably fits that category. The Martian Chronicles was first published in 1950 and Bradbury set the first story, “ Rocket Summer,” in a fictional (and then-distant) 1999 this latter printing advances the timeline to 2030. It’s not a traditional novel, but a collection of short stories originally published in Planet Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, and a handful of other defunct SF magazines, which Bradbury ties together with a series of vignettes. Driven by curiosity and the impending destruction of a worldwide atomic war, men send rocket expeditions to Mars in hopes of settling the planet and finding a place to carry on their civilization. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of mankind’s colonization of the red planet.
But if the SF genre contained more books like Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, I might view it a lot differently.
I’ve never been a big reader of science fiction, largely because, rightly or wrongly, my perception is that SF worships at the altar of technology, and is fixated upon cold, clinical subject matter for which I have little interest. If it had been practical, technologically efficient science fiction, it would have long since fallen to rust by the road. Themes: / Science Fiction / Mars / Mythology / Colonization / Aliens /Īll right, then, what is Chronicles? Is it King Tut out of the tomb when I was three? Norse Eddas when I was six? And Roman/Greek gods that romanced me when I was ten? Pure myth.
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