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If the martian chronicles can be said to be bradburys vision of the future, then it is clearly one rooted in our history, and it clearly parts ways with the more optimistic wing of the sciencefiction. The studio has picked up movie rights to the martian chronicles, the classic short story collection by ray bradbury, one of the foremost names in 20th century sciencefiction literature. When this book first came out, in 1950, it was published as science fiction, a genre that didnt get much respect at the time see genre for more about that. Ray bradburys the martian chronicles is a classic work of 20thcentury literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by times passage. The stories are episodic, telling a dystopian future of expeditions to mars.
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