| Notes | The Martian Chronicles (also known as The Silver Locusts) is a 1950 science fiction short story fix-up by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere in between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. The stories were loosely woven together with a series of short, interstitial vignettes for publication.
• "Rocket Summer" - first published in Planet Stories, Spring 1947
• "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/495155-ylla">Ylla</a>" - first published under the title "I'll Not Ask for Wine" in Maclean's, January 1, 1950
• "The Summer Night" - first published under the title "The Spring Night" in The Arkham Sampler, Winter 1948
• "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/495157-the-earth-men">The Earth Men</a>" - first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1948
• "The Taxpayer"
• "The Third Expedition" - first published under the title "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/472786-mars-is-heaven">Mars is Heaven!</a>" in Planet Stories, Fall 1948
• "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/419360-and-the-moon-be-still-as-bright">—And the Moon Be Still as Bright</a>" - first published under the title "... and the Moon Be Still As Bright" in Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1948. A revised version was included in this book
• "The Settlers"
• "The Green Morning"
• "The Locusts"
• "Night Meeting"
• "The Shore"
• "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/419304-the-fire-balloons">The Fire Balloons</a>" - previously unpublished
• "Interim" - this is not the Ray Bradbury horror story by the <a href="/c/books/book/453132/interim/">same name</a>
• "The Musicians"
• "Way in the Middle of the Air"
• "The Naming of Names" - this is not the same story first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949 which was later retitled "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/419303-dark-they-were-and-golden-eyed">Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed</a>"
• "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/419361-usher-ii">Usher II</a>" - first published under the title "Carnival of Madness" in Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1950
• "The Old Ones"
• "The Martian" - first published in Super Science Stories, November 1949
• "The Luggage Store"
• "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/473570-the-off-season">The Off Season</a>" - first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1948
• "The Watchers"
• "The Silent Towns" - first published in Charm, March 1949
• "The Long Years" - first published under the title ">Dwellers in Silence" in Maclean's, September 15, 1948
• "There Will Come Soft Rains"
• "<a href="https://www.bookogs.com/work/473138-the-million-year-picnic">The Million Year Picnic</a>" - first published in Planet Stories, Summer 1946
Not a chapter in the original edition, but included in several later editions:
• "The Wilderness" - first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1952 |
