The Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury

A series of short stories, illustrating a dozen variations on the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet...and its recurrent, inevitable failure.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76778.The_Martian_Chronicles


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A beautifully hopeless, even somewhat cheerful futility, a la The Ends of the Earth (Douglas Adams' original pitch for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio program)