title: A Gram of Mars: Stories
author:  Becky Hagenston 
description: Hagenston's debut collection is the well-deserved winner of the 1997 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her deceptively simple prose and unremarkable (in most cases) story lines are given depth and nuance by a truthful portrayal of human nature and by imaginative turns of phrase?"glasses shaped like television screens," "karaoke-drunk," "standing in front of a saguaro that seems to be growing from my head like a prickly Dr. Seuss hat"?which evoke vivid images in new and surprising ways. The protagonists are all female, and all of the plots center around human relationships?marriage, parent-child, or friendships. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Christine DeZelar-Tiedman, Univ. of Idaho Lib., Moscow<br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES  
   by Ray Bradbury  
  
    
    
  Copyright 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1958 by Ray Bradbury.  
   Copyright renewed 1977 by Ray Bradbury.  
    
  A Bantam Spectra Book / published by arrangement with Doubleday.  
    
  PUBLISHING HISTORY  
   Doubleday edition published May l950  
   Science Fiction Book Club edition / November 1952  
   Bantam edition / June 1951  
   New Bantam edition / October 1954  
   Bantam paperback edition / September 1979  
    
  All rights reserved.  
    
  ISBN 0-553-27822-3  
    
  The characters and the incidents in this book are entirely the product of the
  author's imagination and have no relation to any person, place, or event in
  real life.  
    
    
    
    
  For my wife MARGUERITE with all my love  
    
    
    
  THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES  
    
    
    
  CHRONOLOGY:  
    
  January 1999:  ROCKET SUMMER  
  February 1999:  YLLA  
  August 1999:  THE SUMMER NIGHT  
  August 1999:  THE EARTH MEN  
  March 2000:  THE TAXPAYER  
  April 2000:  THE THIRD EXPEDITION  
  June 2001:  \--AND THE MOON BE STI