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Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012 (page 6)


Cover art for THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
FICTION
Released: May 4, 1950

"None of the complexities of concepts or formulae, this has an imaginative rather than technical ingenuity."
A flight of fancy in time and space which transcribes some incidents which take place on the planet of Mars, there's a literary, visionary quality here and an avoidance of the more mechanistic aspects of this medium. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE ILLUSTRATED MAN
FICTION
Released: Feb. 23, 1950

"A book which is not limited by its special field."
Scientific fiction enclosed in a frame — wanderer meets a tattooed man whose images foretell the future, leaving a space to preview the destiny of the viewer. Read full book review >