"Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. "The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including "Fahrenheit 451" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes;" essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; "The Illustrated Mein, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, " and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun. Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered "by" it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.

雷·布拉德伯里：

美国著名科幻作家。1920年生于美国伊利诺伊州，迄今已出版五百多篇（部）作品，涵盖短篇故事、长篇小说、诗歌、戏剧以及电影（电视）剧本。

布拉德伯里非凡的写作才能改变了人们的思考方式。他对幻想世界的细致刻画发人深省，折射出人类的劣根性和种种社会问题。

布拉德伯里的作品不仅在科幻界大受欢迎，更以其浪漫意境赢得了主流文学界的广泛赞誉，人们称他为“科幻界的爱伦·坡”。