{"product_id":"the-martian-chronicles-deluxe-collectors-edition-isbn-9780063445321","title":"The Martian Chronicles Deluxe Collector's Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA special hardcover collector’s edition of one of Ray Bradbury’s most beloved collections—featuring printed endpapers and stained edges. \u003cem\u003eThe Martian Chronicles \u003c\/em\u003eis a work of extraordinary imagination that evokes the wonder and folly of Earth’s colonization of the fourth planet from the sun.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a much-celebrated literary career that spanned seven decades, Ray Bradbury produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including \u003cem\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSomething Wicked This Way Comes;\u003c\/em\u003e essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; \u003cem\u003eThe Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country,\u003c\/em\u003e and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth’s settlement of the fourth world from the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBradbury’s Mars 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. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn—first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e 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 grandmaster once again enthralls, delights, and challenges us with his vision and his heart—starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“A prescient, lyrical writer with an abiding hatred for intolerance, Bradbury influenced generations of readers and many of our most famous dreamers, from Stephen King to Steven Spielberg.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJunot Diaz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“How I passed so much of my life without devouring everything Ray Bradbury has ever read is beyond me...on the bright side, how fortunate I am to experience all this for the first time! My God.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eR. F. Kuang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What has this man from Illinois done that episodes from the conquest of another planet leave me in terror and loneliness, I question, as I close the pages of his book. . . .In this book of phantasmagoric experiences, Bradbury has put his empty Sundays, his American boredom, his loneliness, just like Sinclair Lewis did in \u003cem\u003eMain Street\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJorge Luis Borges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e was the first science fiction book to make me feel a character's righteous rage... and the first science fiction book to make me feel loss and loneliness in my gut, doing it without featuring a single human, save as a shadow on a wall... \u003cem\u003eThe Martian Chronicles,\u003c\/em\u003e in short showed me what words can truly do. It showed me magic.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Scalzi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mars in his hands...is not a place described with scientific accuracy or even much consistency, but a state of mind…. Space ships are not miracles of technology, but psychic conveyances, serving the same purpose as Dorothy's whirlwind-borne house in \u003cem\u003eThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz\u003c\/em\u003e, or the trance of the traditional shaman: they get you to the Otherworld.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588062589157,"sku":"NP9780063445321","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063445321.jpg?v=1773961530","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-martian-chronicles-deluxe-collectors-edition-isbn-9780063445321","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}