“This is a fine picture. It came from the hand and the mind of a man inspired. Its idea and its color are from life. This thing is good.”
Work
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the colonists determine to build a new Earth on Mars.
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Ray Bradbury
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“This is a fine picture. It came from the hand and the mind of a man inspired. Its idea and its color are from life. This thing is good.”
“I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun get...”
“They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced him and Huxle...”