Ray Bradbury "The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition" Signed Limited Edition No. 201 of 1,000 [Sealed]

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VERY FINE Hardcover book without any flaws. Appears unread with a square and tight spine. No attached bookplates. Sharp corners that are not bumped. Free of any marks, writing, or stamps. The slipcase is in VERY FINE- with some very minor scuffing to one area. All photos of actual item. Personally signed by the great Ray Bradbury. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION NO. 201 OF 1,000. Subterranean Press / PS Publishing 2009. Ray Bradbury "The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition" Signed Limited Edition No. 201 of 1,000. Signed by the author on the special limitation numbered page. Hardcover book with no dust-jacket as issued. Slipcased. "First Edition" as state on the copyright page. Large octavo. Quarter bound with cloth and marble boards, housed in gilt stamped slipcase. Includes material new to this edition. Collection of closely linked stories about the exploration and colonization of the planet Mars. A masterpiece of 20th Century science fiction. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Originally slated for publication by Hill House. It was acquired by the current publishers. The signature leaf has the Hill House logo. With original introductions and afterwords by : John Scalzi. Joe Hill. Marc Scott Zicree. Richard Matheson. The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage, is available from Simon & Schuster for the first time. In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America s preeminent storyteller, imagines 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 vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong. MORE ABOUT THE BOOK. The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing Bradbury stories originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. For publication, the stories were loosely woven together with a series of short, interstitial vignettes. Bradbury has credited Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as influences on the structure of the book. He has called it a "half-cousin to a novel" and "a book of stories pretending to be a novel". As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories. Like Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, The Martian Chronicles follows a "future history" structure. The stories, complete in themselves, come together as episodes in a larger sequential narrative framework. The overall structure is tripartite, punctuated by two catastrophes: the near-extinction of the Martians and the parallel near-extinction of the human race. The first third (January 1999-April 2000) details the attempts of the Earthmen to reach Mars, and the various ways in which the Martians keep them from returning. In the crucial story, And the Moon be Still as Bright, it is revealed by the fourth exploratory expedition that the Martians have all but perished in a plague caused by germs brought by one of the previous expeditions. N° de ref. del artículo 143-151

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