The Martian Cronicles
Bradbury, Ray
Language: English | Category: Short Stories (Fantasy & Sc. Fic.) | Audio Book: Not Available
Bradbury’s Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor – of crystal pillars and fossil seas – where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn – first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars…and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.
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Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 -
Language: English, Novel - Format: ePub
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the (More) brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. |
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Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Cronicles -
Language: English, Short Stories - Format: ePub
Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil (More) and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. |
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Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 -
Language: Spanish, Novel - Format: ePub
Fahrenheit 451 es una novela distópica, publicada en 1953 por el escritor estadounidense Ray Bradbury. El título hace referencia a la temperatura en la escala de Fahrenheit (°F) a la que el papel de los libros se inflama y arde, (More) equivalente a 233 ºC.
Montag es un bombero. En la sociedad imaginada por la novela, de carácter distópico, los bomberos tienen la misión de quemar libros ya que, según el gobierno, leer impide ser felices porque llena de angustia; al leer, los hombres empiezan a ser diferentes cuando deben ser iguales, lo que es el objetivo del gobierno, que vela por que los ciudadanos sean felices para que así no cuestionen sus acciones y los ciudadanos rindan en sus labores. |
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Bradbury, Ray - Crónicas marcianas -
Language: Spanish, Short Stories - Format: ePub
Esta colección de relatos recoge la crónica de la colonización de Marte por parte de una humanidad que huye de un mundo al borde de la destrucción. Los colonos llevan consigo sus deseos más íntimos y el sueño de reproducir en el (More) Planeta Rojo una civilización de perritos calientes, cómodos sofás y limonada en el porche al atardecer. Pero su equipaje incluye también los miedos ancestrales, que se traducen en odio a lo diferente, y las enfermedades que diezmarán a los marcianos. Conforme a su concepción de lo que debe ser la ciencia ficción, Bradbury se traslada al futuro para iluminar el presente y explorar la naturaleza humana. Escritas en la década de los cuarenta, estas deslumbrantes e intensas historias constituyen un canto contra el racismo, la guerra y la censura, destilando nostalgia e idealismo.Ray Bradbury se consolidó como escritor con esta obra, ahora un clásico de las letras norteamericanas, con su estilo rico, inmediato y conmovedor, que le ha valido el apelativo de poeta de la ciencia ficción |
