"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·布拉德伯裏：

美國著名科幻作傢。1920年生於美國伊利諾伊州，迄今已齣版五百多篇（部）作品，涵蓋短篇故事、長篇小說、詩歌、戲劇以及電影（電視）劇本。

布拉德伯裏非凡的寫作纔能改變瞭人們的思考方式。他對幻想世界的細緻刻畫發人深省，摺射齣人類的劣根性和種種社會問題。

布拉德伯裏的作品不僅在科幻界大受歡迎，更以其浪漫意境贏得瞭主流文學界的廣泛贊譽，人們稱他為“科幻界的愛倫·坡”。