<P> In 1949 , Bradbury and his wife were expecting their first child . He took a Greyhound bus to New York and checked into a room at the YMCA for 50 cents a night . He took his short stories to a dozen publishers and no one wanted them . Just before getting ready to go home , Bradbury had dinner with an editor at Doubleday . When Bradbury recounted that everyone wanted a novel and he did not have one , the editor , coincidentally named Walter Bradbury , asked if the short stories might be tied together into a book - length collection . The title was the editor 's idea ; he suggested , `` You could call it The Martian Chronicles . '' Bradbury liked the idea and recalled making notes in 1944 to do a book set on Mars . That evening , he stayed up all night at the YMCA and typed out an outline . He took it to the Doubleday editor the next morning , who read it and wrote Bradbury a check for $750 . When Bradbury returned to Los Angeles , he connected all the short stories that became The Martian Chronicles . </P>
<P> In 1949 , Bradbury and his wife were expecting their first child . He took a Greyhound bus to New York and checked into a room at the YMCA for 50 cents a night . He took his short stories to a dozen publishers and no one wanted them . Just before getting ready to go home , Bradbury had dinner with an editor at Doubleday . When Bradbury recounted that everyone wanted a novel and he did not have one , the editor , coincidentally named Walter Bradbury , asked if the short stories might be tied together into a book - length collection . The title was the editor 's idea ; he suggested , `` You could call it The Martian Chronicles . '' Bradbury liked the idea and recalled making notes in 1944 to do a book set on Mars . That evening , he stayed up all night at the YMCA and typed out an outline . He took it to the Doubleday editor the next morning , who read it and wrote Bradbury a check for $750 . When Bradbury returned to Los Angeles , he connected all the short stories that became The Martian Chronicles . </P>
what was the first book ray bradbury wrote
what was the first book ray bradbury wrote
The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles