![]() ![]() In this first major publication, Bradbury shows his influences quite clearly. But perhaps it was Walter Bradbury’s suggestion which gave him “permission” to link the stories together. In fact, Ray already had the idea of collecting his Mars stories as far back as 1948, when he wrote some notes under the title “The Martian Chronicles, a book of short stories”. 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 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. ![]()
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