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The Martian Chronicles
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First edition
AuthorRay Bradbury
IllustratorMichael Welan
Cover artistMatthew Aijala
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, horror, dystopian fiction
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
May 4, 1950
Pages222

The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story fixup by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere in between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. The stories were loosely woven together with a series of short, interstitial vignettes for publication.

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