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Books Like The Martian Chronicles
Best books to read after The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is the lyrical fantasy of Mars colonization — nostalgia, colonialism, the failure of American civilization. These recommendations continue the Bradbury canon, explore the literary SF tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the lyrical, moral science fiction story.
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The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
The essential Bradbury companion — eighteen stories framed by a tattooed man whose illustrations come to life, including 'The Veldt,' 'Kaleidoscope,' and 'The Other Foot,' many of Bradbury's finest individual stories.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
The Bradbury novel — Guy Montag the fireman who burns books, Bradbury's most celebrated single work and the most direct statement of his fears about American culture and the suppression of literature.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
The dark fantasy Bradbury — Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway in Green Town, Illinois when the carnival arrives, Bradbury's most gothic novel and the one that shows the other side of his imagination from The Martian Chronicles.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
The literary SF companion — Le Guin sharing Bradbury's commitment to the literary values of prose, character, and social examination over gadgetry, both writers using SF to think seriously about human culture.
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I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
The contemporary classic SF story collection — Asimov's robot stories featuring Susan Calvin and the development of robot psychology, the other great SF story collection of the early 1950s alongside The Martian Chronicles.
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Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
The literary SF story companion — Charlie Gordon's intelligence tripling and declining, the most emotionally affecting individual SF story of the postwar era, comparable in lyrical quality to the best Bradbury stories.
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Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem
The European literary SF companion — scientists on a station orbiting a planet whose ocean may be a living organism, Lem's novel sharing Bradbury's interest in the gap between human imagination and the alien reality it encounters.
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The Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
The galactic civilization companion for Martian Chronicles readers who want to continue in the classic SF tradition — Asimov's psychohistory and the long fall of civilization, the biggest-ideas SF from the same era as Bradbury.
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