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Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation
Dennis Calero
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Some books never get dated. Some tales capture the imagination long, long after they are written. Words that travel with you as you get older, and wiser. The Martian Chronicles, written in the 1950s, is one of these books. Once you've read it, it is with you forever.
Now young readers get a chance to experience fourteen of the original 28 tales in eerily illustrated graphic novel format. Believe me, this book will be even more memorable because of the visual power of the images.
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The stories at first seem simple. Just a handful of Earth men land on the red-gold planet, Mars. There they discover the last dying inhabitants of a once thriving civilization. The Martians are strange telepathic shape-shifters...or are they ghosts...or even delusions?
With their own planet floundering in waste and war, more and more Earth men come to Mars, sweeping aside the Martian’s majestic civilization. The colonizers build cities, homes, strip malls. But the Martians are not ready to just give up. It
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