School & Library Binding, 182 pages
English language
Published Oct. 8, 1999 by Tandem Library.
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the colonists determine to build a new Earth on Mars.
Kosta zitzaidan pixka bat irakurtzea, ez dakit ingeles mailagatik izango zen. Hala ere, gomendatzen dut.
Barrua kolpatu zidan eszena batek (ez da izorrakia, baina adi, banoa eta) hildako batzuk ikusi eta benetakoak ez direla pentsatzen dutenean. Hil bezain pronto ahaztu zituzten, ez gara deus, sentsazio hori eman zidan kolpetik.
Provocative, if dated. The book's weak point is that Bradbury implicitly assumes small-town Americana and its values to be humanity's default expression, but its strong point is its bravery in challenging those values.
Amazingly enthralling, horrifying, realistic, and humerus, almost all at the same time.
I listened to this book again, suffering under the false delusion that it could not possibly be as good as I remembered. I was wrong. Soulful poetic science fiction does exist!
Sometimes the sentiment is turned up a little high, but I think it was more a matter of the times when these stories were written. It's been so many years since I first read this that I largely forgot the details." This is a review of the Audible version ten years later, a long time after the first time I read this.
