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jwharris28
Posted 2015-01-07 7:50 AM (#9195 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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I picked The Martian Chronicles for 1950 and started listening to it. In the introduction Bradbury admits that the stories aren't science fiction, and he's excited to think his Martians are like Egyptians. The stories are quite engaging, but they have both a mundane and unreal quality at the same time. They are more like The Twilight Zone than traditional science fiction of the 1950s. And their appeal is psychological. They probably were popular because of their human angle and not because of Mars or space travel.

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