Comment by 🚀 stack
Interesting. I always thought it was a collection of stories written at different times with entirely different and sometimes conflicting ideas and takes on what Martians could be like. I never knew it was 'tweaked' or 'fixed up' and thought that somehow it just worked.
2025-11-22 · 5 months ago
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🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Nov 23 at 00:30:
I remember really liking it when I read it. I enjoyed Bradbury's writing. His other stuff was pretty good as well. "Dandelion Wine" wasn't scifi, but was moving. I'm glad you mentioned Martian Chronicles... maybe I should give it a re-read!
Fahrenheit 451 is worth reading
🥬 choy [OP] · Nov 23 at 18:57:
Yes, another fantastic read, and objectively a very relevant one given our current era's gatekeeping of information. A book that makes me happy to be interacting with my peers here on Gemini ~
Bradbury knows how to write! I've always loved the Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked, etc. He has a way of describing things that draws me in.
I have always though Farenheit 451 was a tad overrated though... I've always wanted to like it but for some reason it never interested me like his other works.
🌲 Half_Elf_Monk · Dec 22 at 18:45:
@spersin - I can understand that feeling about Farenheight 451. The dystopian genre is a bit more crowded (and we have different expectations...), while Bradbury seems like his real wheelhouse is more of a literate humanism. It's interesting to see what his idea of a dystopia looks like though.
I though 451 was great. Read it first as a teen growing up in a totalitarian country, so your milage may vary.
💀 TheGnomeDome · Jan 27 at 13:56:
Not dissimilar to the way I really discovered Bradbury. There was a copy of The Golden Apples of the Sun at school when I was about 12 or 13 and I vaguely knew Bradbury from scifi anthologies.
I was not prepared for something so bittersweet and elegaic. Martian Chronicles is an all time great!
🥬 choy [OP] · Jan 31 at 23:47:
I've now found myself reading Something Wicked This Way Comes. Such an odd book, but very atmospheric. What an interesting mind that mad had.
I vaguely remember the movie being fun
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The Martian Chronicles — My old high school had a million locked doors and storage rooms. One day, my French teacher unlocked one such room to grab a couple spare dictionaries, and allowed us a quick peek inside. On one of the steel shelves, I found a book with a most curious cover, tan humanoids and a sprawling desert landscape, etched with cerulean waterways and dotted with strange termite-like towers. It captured me immediately. The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 collection of short stories by...