The Martian Chronicles

Name: The Martian Chronicles
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 9781668133859

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 08/26/2025

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio!

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines 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 vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on April 05, 2025

The Martian Chronicles is a science fiction book but it demonstrates intensity and imagery of the best poetry. They had a house of crystal pillars on the planet Mars by the edge of an empty sea, and every morning you could see Mrs. K eating the golden fruits that grew from the crystal walls, or clean......more

Goodreads review by Federico on March 05, 2025

The Red Planet. It’s been widely recorded humanity’s fascination with the unknown, and the infinity of the universe. What is out there? And who? Will we ever get there? When? And how? Will we ever find out? Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles is the diary of mankind’s strange and amazingly disastrous at......more

Goodreads review by mark on October 19, 2012

RIDDLE ME A MARTIAN RIDDLE ۞ A Riddle: What walks on two legs, uses two arms, talks like a human, acts like a human, kills humans, replaces humans, wants to be accepted and loved by a human? Answer: A Martian! ۞ A Riddle: What walks on two legs, uses two arms, talks like a human, acts like an animal exce......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on May 05, 2020

"We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things." This brilliant collection of science fiction short stories combines elements of humour and tragedy to show us how much man must learn, as such a very dim view of human society is evoked in these pages. Before he enters the wo......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on December 14, 2017

The Martian Chronicles is a book I have heard about for years, but ended up passing it by in lieu of other Ray Bradbury classics (do you need to qualify them by saying “classic”? I think that goes without saying). I have now finally read it and it is amazing. I continue to be impressed with Bradbury......more

Quotes

"As the book world celebrates the 75th anniversary of Bradbury’s classic, Dion Graham’s stellar narration blasts off with a group of astronauts headed to Mars. The production opens with Graham’s delivery of an editor’s note intended to soften the offensive ideas in Bradbury’s introductory essay, written in 1950, which explains his writing process for these interconnected stories. Set in the future on Mars, the works showcase Graham’s talents. He vocalizes each character with precision and sensitivity. Whether it’s the arrogance of the first astronauts, Ylla sharing her dream about the man from the sky, Father Peregrine seeking redemption for the Martians, or the whispery-voiced Janice discussing her fear of her trip to join her beloved on Mars, Graham imbues each character with an audible soul."