Re: Alien Life
Expendable? How do you gather from the Martian Chronicles that Earth became expendable? Every time there was a war on Earth the various colonies on Mars would become ghost towns as people went home. Not only did they want to help defend their native countries, but there was a good stretch of time when no space ships were even available to make the trip to Mars and the colonies were left to their own barely self-sufficient resources. This was a major plot point in some of the stories, of course. Vast, empty distances, long travel times, etc.
Personally, I think Bradbury is a Short Story writer who just happened to mix some SciFi elements into his works. The 'Mars' of the Martian Chronicles is more like the American West than a new planet.
[ August 13, 2002, 01:36: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]
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