The Martian Chronicles - Large Print Author:Ray Bradbury Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. — Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphors -- of clear crystal pillars and fossil seas where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here that the invaders have come to desp... more »oil and commercialize and to grow and learn -- rushing from a world with no future toward the promise of tomorrow.« less