Ray Bradbury does not approve this message. But the books are more than fifty years old, Or not worth reading, in some cases.Ī word of warning there will be spoilersįor plot points in some of the short stories I discuss here. The ones that have stuck with me, that I think are worth reading. For this entry, I want to tell you what I remember about these stories, and my impressions of them some six or seven years later. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about today. I need to go back and reread 451 and his short stories, because I think I may have missed out on quite a few key themes when I read them. Maybe it’s because I was only finally old enough to really appreciate Something Wicked when I read it, but that one is my favorite work. After reading those I moved on to Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine, but I didn’t get to Something Wicked This Way Comes until a summer or two ago. It contained The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun, and R is for Rocket, four of his earlier short story collections. It was book which I brought to school for probably every day of seventh grade, until I finished reading it. I first got my hands on a copy of that book when I bought a fancy, gold-trimmed set of Ray Bradbury short stories from what was once a Barnes and Noble. Next, the Martian Princess is attacked by the infamous pirate, Hogarth, who takes the letter and Thalia.ĭetermined to recover the one and rescue the other (if she needs rescuing), Dave begins an epic quest that will plunge him into peril on three worlds, in space, and finally amid the red sands of Mars.Ĭomplete in itself, here is the first of at least six volumes chronicling Hasse's nearly forgotten thirty-story future history series, Chronicles of the Six Worlds.I didn’t have this exact copy, but you get the idea. Then, his encounters with the enigmatic Thalia Martian, who may be the innocent she seems, a secret ally, or an agent of the unknown forces who want the package Dave has in his safekeeping. But from the first moment he sets foot on the spaceship Martian Princess, danger and intrigue pile up around him.įirst, there is the attack on his life. Now, in its first-ever republication, you can read this fast-moving novel set against the conflicts of the early years in the exploration and colonization of the solar system.ĭave Randall needs money-so when a well-respected figure asks him to deliver an important diplomatic package to Mars, in secret, he accepts. So Isaac Asimov, science fiction grandmaster, said of Henry Hasse's classic space opera when it first appeared in magazine form just prior to WWII. "As Good as an Action-Adventure Story can Be!"
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