TheMartianChronicles

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury Copyright 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1958 by Ray Bradbury. Copyright renewed 1977 by Ray Bradbury. A Bantam Spectra Book / published by arrangement with Doubleday. PUBLISHING HISTORY Doubleday edition published May l950 Science Fiction Book Club edition / November 1952 Bantam edition / June 1951 New Bantam edition / October 1954 Bantam paperback edition / September 1979 All rights reserved. ISBN 0-553-27822-3 The characters and the incidents in this book are entirely the product of the author’s imagination and have no relation to any person, place, or event in real life. For my wife MARGUERITE with all my love CHRONOLOGY: January 1999: ROCKET SUMMER February 1999: YLLA August 1999: THE SUMMER NIGHT August 1999: THE EARTH MEN March 2000: THE TAXPAYER April 2000: THE THIRD EXPEDITION June 2001: --AND THE MOON BE STILL AS BRIGHT August 2001: THE SETTLERS December 2001: THE GREEN MORNING February 2002: THE LOCUSTS August 2002: NIGHT MEETING October 2002: THE SHORE February 2003: INTERIM April 2003: THE MUSICIANS June 2003: WAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AIR 2004-05: THE NAMI......