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6 audio discs (5 hrs., 38 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The people of Earth are preparing for war, a war that could potentially destroy the planet. Explorers are sent to Mars to find a new place for humans to colonize. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn. First, it's a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars and then is conquered by it.
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x, 329 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautiful white suit...
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xvii, 893 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself,...
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12 audio discs (14 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES: Bradbury's Mars is 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 silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -- first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered...