The Martian Chronicles
Science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury1
(1950) which has something of the dark, psychological character of Lem's
Solaris. Even at this late stage, Bradbury
was still able to tap into the Lowellian, golden-age myth of canals and
intelligent Martians, even though he and presumably most of his readers
knew that the real planet Mars appeared incapable
of supporting anything but the most primitive forms of. Bradbury's main
goal, however, is not astronomical accuracy but to contrast the "graceful,
beautiful and philosophical" Martians, and their love of the aesthetic,
with technology-obsessed humankind. Thus he explores how civilizations and
intelligence elsewhere might have developed along completely different lines
(see extraterrestrial intelligence, more
advanced than us).
References
- Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. New York: Doubleday
(1950).
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