![]() ![]() He met with editor Walter Bradbury (no relation), who suggested to Ray that he could take some of his disparate Mars stories and weave them into a novel. The best description, although it's a bit of a mouthful, is the term Eller and Touponce use: "novelised story-cycle".īradbury often told the tale of how this novel/collection/fix-up/novelised story-cycle came to be. The label "fix-up" is also sometimes applied: this term from the science fiction field refers to a work originally published in sections in pulp magazines, but then stitched together as a novel for book publication. The result is sometimes called a novel, and sometimes called a short story collection. ![]() But there was also a lot of new material, mostly in linking stories and passages crafted to join the disjointed tales together. Many of the stories had previously been published in magazines ranging from Thrilling Wonder Stories to Mademoiselle. ![]() The Book The Martian Chronicles was Ray Bradbury's first book from a mainstream publisher, a collection of linked science fiction and fantasy tales published by Doubleday in 1950. Lockdown Choice #2: The Martian Chronicles ![]() In these posts, I cover each of Ray Bradbury's books, say something about the contents, then pick the best stories and adaptations. This is the second in a new series of posts, my Lockdown Choices, where I seek to entertain you while in coronavirus-isolation, and remind you of Bradbury's great works in this, his centenary year. ![]()
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