August 31, 2018

Ray Bradbury - February 2003: Interim

The Martian Chronicles

They brought in fifteen thousand lumber feet of Oregon pine to build Tenth City, and seventy-nine thousand feet of California redwood and they hammered together a clean, neat little town by the edge of the stone canals. On Sunday nights you could see red, blue, and green stained-glass light in the churches and hear the voices singing the numbered hymns. "We will now sing 79. We will now sing 94." And in certain houses you heard the hard clatter of a typewriter, the novelist at work; or the scratch of a pen, the poet at work; or no sound at all, the former beachcomber at work. It was as if, in many ways, a great earthquake had shaken loose the roots and cellars of an Iowa town, and then, in an instant, a whirlwind twister of Oz-like proportions had carried the entire town off to Mars to set it down without a bump.

Previous Martian Stories:

  1. January 1999: Rocket Summer
  2. February 1999:  Ylla
  3. August 1999: The Summer Night
  4. August 1999: The Earth Men
  5. March 2000: The Taxpayer
  6. April 2000: The Third Expedition
  7. June 2001:  And The Moon Be Still As Bright
  8. August 2001: The Settlers
  9. December 2001: The Green Morning
  10. February 2002: The Locusts
  11. August 2002: Night Meeting
  12. October 2002: The Shore

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