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
  
  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	STILL	AS	BRIGHT
  August	2001:		THE	SETTLERS
  December	2001:		THE	GREEN	MORNING
  February	2002:	THE	LOCUSTS
  August	2002:	NIGHT	