The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)

Bradbury's chronicle is almost poetic. His short stories of the red planet are almost songs of Alien beauty and an all too human tragedy. Some of them have been eroded by scientific progress, but most of them remain believable even today, and all of them are as touching as the day they were written.

Read and reread every year since I was a kid, far and wide my favorite book. Classic, universal, and prophetic; pointedly sums up the human condition, where we've been and where we'll return.

If you like Asimov's I Robot you'll like this. Similar in structure and concept but themed around the colonization of mars. some stories are garbage but most (especially near the end of the book) are amazing. a couple are really awesomely goofy too...one of them this dude thinks hes the last person on mars and gets obsessed with answering phones...a woman calls one time and hes...more

If you like Asimov's I Robot you'll like this. Similar in structure and concept but themed around the colonization of mars. some stories are garbage but most (especially near the end of the book) are amazing. a couple are really awesomely goofy too...one of them this dude thinks hes the last person on mars and gets obsessed with answering phones...a woman calls one time and hes convinced that they are going to fall in love...so he hunts her down finds her and realizes that shes a fat nasty cow and turns and runs like fuck the other way   hide

Lyrical science-fiction. Beauiful.