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Ray Bradbury
2,561 books25.3k followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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May 17, 2016
دوستانِ گرانقدر، این داستان تخیلی در سال 2120 اتفاق می افتد... سفینه ای به سمت مریخ در حرکت است، و عده ای جادوگر در مریخ به وسیلۀ جادو افراد درون سفینه را میترسانند و عده ای را میکشند تا مانع از رسیدن سفینه به مریخ شوند
گویا در سال 2020 بر اساس حکم و دستوری، جشن هایِ «هالووین» و «کریسمس» ممنوع میشود و تمامی کتاب هایی که به جادوگری و جن و هیولا و روح و در کل مسائل و موضوعات خرافی و خیالی مربوط میشده است را ممنوع اعلام کرده و میسوزانند... کتاب هایی همچون : «اسرار و پندار- آلن پو»... «دراکولا- برام استوکر»...«فرانکنشتاین- مری شلی»... «مشکل روی مشکل- هنری جیمز»... «افسانه اسلیپی هالو- واشنگتن ایروینگ»... «دختر راپاچینی- ناتانیل هاوتورن»... «واقعۀ پُل اوُل کریک-آمبروز بیرس»... «آلیس در سرزمین عجایب- لوییس کارول»... «بیدها- آلجرنون بلک وود»... «جادوگر شهر اُز- ل.فرانک باوم»... «سایه شگرف بر فراز اسنیموت- ه.ف.لاوکرافت»... و کتاب هایی از نویسندگان دیگری همچون «والتر دلامار»، «هاروی»، «ولز»، «آسکوبیت»، «هاکسلی» و حتی «ویلیام شکسپیر» به خاطر نمایشنامه هملت و «چارلز هافهام» بخاطر مجموعۀ کریسمس و دیگر نویسنده ها و شاعرانی که به هر طریق در مورد موضوعات خیالی و افسانه ای و دور از دانش و خرد مطلبی نوشته باشند
به همین دلیل روح نویسندگان این کتابها، به مریخ نقل مکان کرده اند و به نوعی خودشان را تبعید کرده اند... و هنگامی که متوجه میشوند که انسانها سعی دارند به مریخ بروند.. به هر روشی سعی دارند تا مانع از ورود آنها به سیارۀ مریخ شوند... چون معتقد هستند که انسان به هرجا میرود با خود مرگ و نابودی را به آنجا میکشاند
امیدوارم این توضیحات در مورد این کتاب کافی بوده باشه
«پیروز باشید و ایرانی»
گویا در سال 2020 بر اساس حکم و دستوری، جشن هایِ «هالووین» و «کریسمس» ممنوع میشود و تمامی کتاب هایی که به جادوگری و جن و هیولا و روح و در کل مسائل و موضوعات خرافی و خیالی مربوط میشده است را ممنوع اعلام کرده و میسوزانند... کتاب هایی همچون : «اسرار و پندار- آلن پو»... «دراکولا- برام استوکر»...«فرانکنشتاین- مری شلی»... «مشکل روی مشکل- هنری جیمز»... «افسانه اسلیپی هالو- واشنگتن ایروینگ»... «دختر راپاچینی- ناتانیل هاوتورن»... «واقعۀ پُل اوُل کریک-آمبروز بیرس»... «آلیس در سرزمین عجایب- لوییس کارول»... «بیدها- آلجرنون بلک وود»... «جادوگر شهر اُز- ل.فرانک باوم»... «سایه شگرف بر فراز اسنیموت- ه.ف.لاوکرافت»... و کتاب هایی از نویسندگان دیگری همچون «والتر دلامار»، «هاروی»، «ولز»، «آسکوبیت»، «هاکسلی» و حتی «ویلیام شکسپیر» به خاطر نمایشنامه هملت و «چارلز هافهام» بخاطر مجموعۀ کریسمس و دیگر نویسنده ها و شاعرانی که به هر طریق در مورد موضوعات خیالی و افسانه ای و دور از دانش و خرد مطلبی نوشته باشند
به همین دلیل روح نویسندگان این کتابها، به مریخ نقل مکان کرده اند و به نوعی خودشان را تبعید کرده اند... و هنگامی که متوجه میشوند که انسانها سعی دارند به مریخ بروند.. به هر روشی سعی دارند تا مانع از ورود آنها به سیارۀ مریخ شوند... چون معتقد هستند که انسان به هرجا میرود با خود مرگ و نابودی را به آنجا میکشاند
امیدوارم این توضیحات در مورد این کتاب کافی بوده باشه
«پیروز باشید و ایرانی»
December 21, 2018
Hints of Fahrenheit 451 in this one. Banned literature.
September 10, 2021
I thought this was a rather sad story.
“War begets war. Destruction begets destruction. On Earth, a century ago, in the year 2020 they outlawed our books.“
“War begets war. Destruction begets destruction. On Earth, a century ago, in the year 2020 they outlawed our books.“
May 22, 2018
Will the real Martians please stand up?
April 5, 2021
3.7 stars
The concept is great, but it became a little chaotic and tumultuous. I think he was trying to do a little too much and the narrative spun out of control a bit. Bradbury wrapped things up at the end, so he knew what he was doing but I think there were too many characters and concepts he wanted to introduce within the story. So the middle ends up feeling like a cacophony of noise that struggles for a deeper meaning amidst the pandemonium occurring. The concept is interesting, but that's the problem, he has too many ideas and can't choose among them all.
The concept is great, but it became a little chaotic and tumultuous. I think he was trying to do a little too much and the narrative spun out of control a bit. Bradbury wrapped things up at the end, so he knew what he was doing but I think there were too many characters and concepts he wanted to introduce within the story. So the middle ends up feeling like a cacophony of noise that struggles for a deeper meaning amidst the pandemonium occurring. The concept is interesting, but that's the problem, he has too many ideas and can't choose among them all.
November 18, 2018
A story is very similar to Fahrenheit 451, the same idea of technology vs books and literature. And again, the idea is good, but the author doesn’t let the reader to enjoy his/her own discovery... and adds very primitive descriptions at the end.
Spoiler:
Even if there was some hope at the end of the first one, no hope was left in this one.
Spoiler:
Even if there was some hope at the end of the first one, no hope was left in this one.
February 2, 2025
I think some stories are more fun to write than to read.
“Perhaps you can explain why we are here? How did we come here?"
"War begets war. Destruction begets destruction. On Earth, in the last half of the twentieth century they began to outlaw our books. Oh, what a horrible thing — to destroy our literary creations that way! It summoned us out of — what? Death? The Beyond? I don't like abstract things.”
It’s fun to incorporate all your favorite things.
But soon it can quickly become a grocery list of objects and things.
“People joined him and ran with him. Here were Mr. Coppard and Mr. Machen running with him now. And there were hating serpents and angry demons and fiery bronze dragons and spitting vipers and trembling witches like the barbs and nettles...”
Oh, but there were moments.
“Oh, last night I felt ill, ill, ill to the marrows of me, for there is a body of the soul as well as a body of the body, and this soul body ached in all of its glowing parts, and last night I felt myself a candle, guttering.”
Santa Claus is here. Isn’t that fun?
“They all looked at the thin little old man with the scraggly beard and faded red velvet suit.”
But really, this room is getting much too full. Where is the door? This feels much like a clown car, packed full of notable characters and figures.
Isn’t this fun?
"God rest him. Nothing of him left now. For what are we but books, and when those are gone, nothing's to be seen."
A rushing sound filled the sky.
They cried out, terrified, and looked up. In the sky, dazzling it with sizzling fire clouds, was the rocket!”
And metaphors! So many metaphors. I am awash in figurative speech like a man beneath a soap box.
“And Poe howled, furiously, and shrank back with every sweep and sweep of the rocket cutting and ravening the air! All the dead sea seemed a pit in which, trapped, they waited the sinking of the dread machinery, the glistening ax; they were people under the avalanche!
“The snakes!" screamed Poe.
And luminous serpentines of undulant green hurtled toward the rocket...”
The ending was nice, though. Very melodramatic. Reminiscent of the Shelley poem.
“Perhaps you can explain why we are here? How did we come here?"
"War begets war. Destruction begets destruction. On Earth, in the last half of the twentieth century they began to outlaw our books. Oh, what a horrible thing — to destroy our literary creations that way! It summoned us out of — what? Death? The Beyond? I don't like abstract things.”
It’s fun to incorporate all your favorite things.
But soon it can quickly become a grocery list of objects and things.
“People joined him and ran with him. Here were Mr. Coppard and Mr. Machen running with him now. And there were hating serpents and angry demons and fiery bronze dragons and spitting vipers and trembling witches like the barbs and nettles...”
Oh, but there were moments.
“Oh, last night I felt ill, ill, ill to the marrows of me, for there is a body of the soul as well as a body of the body, and this soul body ached in all of its glowing parts, and last night I felt myself a candle, guttering.”
Santa Claus is here. Isn’t that fun?
“They all looked at the thin little old man with the scraggly beard and faded red velvet suit.”
But really, this room is getting much too full. Where is the door? This feels much like a clown car, packed full of notable characters and figures.
Isn’t this fun?
"God rest him. Nothing of him left now. For what are we but books, and when those are gone, nothing's to be seen."
A rushing sound filled the sky.
They cried out, terrified, and looked up. In the sky, dazzling it with sizzling fire clouds, was the rocket!”
And metaphors! So many metaphors. I am awash in figurative speech like a man beneath a soap box.
“And Poe howled, furiously, and shrank back with every sweep and sweep of the rocket cutting and ravening the air! All the dead sea seemed a pit in which, trapped, they waited the sinking of the dread machinery, the glistening ax; they were people under the avalanche!
“The snakes!" screamed Poe.
And luminous serpentines of undulant green hurtled toward the rocket...”
The ending was nice, though. Very melodramatic. Reminiscent of the Shelley poem.
May 30, 2025
According to Wikipedia: "The Exiles" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. It was originally published as "The Mad Wizards of Mars" in Maclean's on September 15, 1949, and was reprinted, in revised form, the following year by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. First collected in The Illustrated Man (1951), it was later included in the collections R is for Rocket (1962), Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003), A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) and A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (2010, under the "Mad Wizards" title and presumably with the Maclean's text. It was also published in The Eureka Years: Boucher and McComas's Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1949-1954 (Bantam Books, 1982) (ISBN 0553206737).
I found the Macleans version for free in its original setting on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Macleans-.... It's the earliest rendition. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter-Spring 1950 issue version can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sKX5.... Incidentally, Bradbury's story appeared in only the second issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
"The Exiles" is about... Wikipedia to the rescue again: "Circa the year 2020, the planet Earth contrived to ban and outlaw the books of supernaturalist authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood and Ambrose Bierce. A century later in the year 2120, the dying crew of an interplanetary rocket-ship is headed for the planet Mars. The crew is plagued by needle-sharp pains and nightmarish visions and dreams, caused by the incantations and magical fires of the Martian Exiles -- the banned authors Shakespeare, Blackwood, Bierce, Lovecraft and Poe, and their literary characters -- who are fearfully aware of the approaching rocket. The Exiles are already fading from existence because the people of Earth have burned nearly all their books."
Being very much a fan of all these banned authors, I couldn't resist, and found the story to be thoroughly enjoyable! Earthmen are on a spaceship headed for Mars, where Poe, Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and even Baum have been exiled, their books having been burned. It is great fun to read the conversation Bradbury puts in the mouths of these many literary giants.
I read both versions of the story, the earlier Macleans, and the one-year-later F&SF version. They are about 95% the same, word for word. Anyone who reads either one will have the full story. That said, the F&SF version has small improvements that add incrementally to the story's quality. My advice would be to read that version only. You won't get the illustrations that were in the Macleans magazine, but you will have the improved story. The F&SF version in particular has more of the H. P. Lovecraft dialog than the Macleans one contained.
I found the Macleans version for free in its original setting on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Macleans-.... It's the earliest rendition. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter-Spring 1950 issue version can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sKX5.... Incidentally, Bradbury's story appeared in only the second issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
"The Exiles" is about... Wikipedia to the rescue again: "Circa the year 2020, the planet Earth contrived to ban and outlaw the books of supernaturalist authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood and Ambrose Bierce. A century later in the year 2120, the dying crew of an interplanetary rocket-ship is headed for the planet Mars. The crew is plagued by needle-sharp pains and nightmarish visions and dreams, caused by the incantations and magical fires of the Martian Exiles -- the banned authors Shakespeare, Blackwood, Bierce, Lovecraft and Poe, and their literary characters -- who are fearfully aware of the approaching rocket. The Exiles are already fading from existence because the people of Earth have burned nearly all their books."
Being very much a fan of all these banned authors, I couldn't resist, and found the story to be thoroughly enjoyable! Earthmen are on a spaceship headed for Mars, where Poe, Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and even Baum have been exiled, their books having been burned. It is great fun to read the conversation Bradbury puts in the mouths of these many literary giants.
I read both versions of the story, the earlier Macleans, and the one-year-later F&SF version. They are about 95% the same, word for word. Anyone who reads either one will have the full story. That said, the F&SF version has small improvements that add incrementally to the story's quality. My advice would be to read that version only. You won't get the illustrations that were in the Macleans magazine, but you will have the improved story. The F&SF version in particular has more of the H. P. Lovecraft dialog than the Macleans one contained.
March 10, 2024
Hmmm, difficult again to imagine the true meaning for me about this story. Bradbury does another story about book burning Fahrenheit 451 but if there is a relationship... except to reread old stories of masters of literature I don't know what it is. Today the last copy of an author's work will never be burnt, as it'll be digital on a computer on a harddrive forever. (or until the next deluge).
December 9, 2023
Awesome short story by Bradbury, where creatures and worlds from banned books on Earth materialize on Mars where they live until all remaining copies of each one are destroyed. I wish he expanded this as a whole novel.
August 30, 2018
Review to come about this Martian leper colony
August 14, 2019
Interesting concept. And eye-opening once I understood what was going on. I didn't particularly enjoy it, but it was a powerful message.
July 18, 2022
"For what are we but books, and when those are gone, nothing's to be seen."
May 14, 2024
3.5⭐
December 28, 2025
the idea is brilliant, but probably i just didn’t feel it in the right way
March 5, 2025
This is an excellent tale about denizens of Mars. The people of Earth have put away and burned all books. On Mars, the authors and the tales they created live in exile. In this story a few humans approach Mars by rocket. One of the humans even has illegal books. The authors and characters of classic tales converse and argue about the approaching ship and the fact that humans have destroyed them.
May 31, 2024
Boy, did this story take a strange turn. It begins in a future where all novels considered “ghastly” have been banned and burned. Poe, Stoker, Shelly, Lovecraft, Wells and more all banned. As has Halloween and Christmas. The crew of a spaceship on its way to Mars are mysteriously dying.
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