/lit/ - Literature

>Look at me, I'm the Martian now

Fuck humans.

>>9140325
>comfy detective lore
You're better off reading Sherlock Holmes, or even one of Asimov's robot novels, e.g. Caves Of Steel.

Or you could consider some of HP Lovecraft as a detective story. The Call Of Cthulhu is just a narrator pulling together newspaper cuttings and letters. A lot of them are like that.

>>9140155
I know you have read Bradbury, but the Martian Chronicles deserves to be read, especially if you have read things like Foundation already. It will round out your reading of Golden Age SF, if you want more of that, and it's a collection of short stories that holds up well.

If you want to broaden out, then there is Philip K Dick. Any of the books the Library Of America published is worth reading, not in any particular order.

You can't go far wrong by looking at the Hugo and Nebula winners from around this time. Except I don't rate Arthur C Clarke at all.

After a while you will get an idea of what areas and eras interest you. As for myself, I hard SF boring.

Just read The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.

This book mentions a lot of times the color green, if you read all the stories you'll notice it quite often...

Do you think the author does this as a literary resource or for the sake of semiotics and steganography?

On the Third Expedition the rocket lands on green land. It's funny, because there are conspiracy theories that say the NASA used Greenland (as opposed to the Red Planet) to record the Curiosity mission... Also, the town where the earth men end up is called Green Bluff.

But it could be all just coincidence... How would you explain the repeated reference of the color green?

Hey /lit/, just finished the Martian Chronicles. I thought it was pretty good. What did you guys think of it?

I just read this and it's probably my favorite book ever.

How would you rank Bradbury's works?

Also, what did you think of the Martian Chronicles and which were your favorite stories?

>>7406303