THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

By Ray Bradbury 

Have you ever dreamed about leaving our planet Earth? 

Never wondered what Mars is like? What do the martians look like? Or even, are there martians at all?

This collection of short stories will take you to planet Mars. In this collection of short stories, Ray Bradbury, the author, sets the plot in the red planet, as it is usually called.

After several attempts to colonize our neighbour planet, mankind manages to settle there and mix with the natives.

The starting four stories tell the attempts of some NASA missions to colonize the planet. The visitors (the humans) become shocked because they didn´t expect life at all and much less they expected martians were human-like creatures.

The martians, on the other hand, thought   those visitors, that claimed to be from another planet were insane creatures, and killed the first astronauts.

The Martian Chronicles, a set of short stories but related one to each other.It also describes the contradictions of human society thorugh the looking-glass of the martians standpoint.

I should admit that I started reading this book long ago and And felt reluctant to finish. But, last February, I decided to give it a second chance and now I'm really glad to have made that decision.