The Martian Chronicles - Blog Posts

Every so often the sci fi that had a hold on my in high school comes back into my consciousness and all the sudden I'm reading 7 books at once

From The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s 1949 sci-fi classic.

What did time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people.

There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like it, it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. And, going further, what did Time look like? Time look like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight – Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck – tonight you could almost taste time.” ― Ray Bradbury, “The Martian Chronicles” (William Morrow Paperbacks; May 21, 2013) (via Alive on All Channels)

The Martian Chronicles - art by Ian Miller (1979)

The Martian Chronicles (USA/UK, 1980).

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”

— Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles