Series
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · 1 novelette · 27 short stories · 2 collections · 1946–1991
The Martian Chronicles (1950) is Ray Bradbury's fix-up novel, a chain of linked short stories following waves of settlers leaving a troubled Earth to colonize Mars and encountering its native Martians, before Earth itself is ultimately consumed by nuclear war.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
The Martian Chronicles at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s9
- 1950s20
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s1
Shape
1 novelette · 27 short stories · 2 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationmarsnear futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book30 of 30 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Usher IIdarkest
- Rocket Summerbrightest
- The Fire Balloonscalmest
- The Earth Menmost intense