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An overview of Ray Bradbury’s new novel. We find a peaceful Martian home, but the complacent lifestyle is interrupted when strange dreams plague the lonely housewife. What does it mean? Can the jealous husband end it all when he takes matters into his own hands?
Later, we find that a raiding party of Earth men find a city that has been laid waste. Is it a time for celebration, or mourning? How did the destruction come? It seems to be the beginning of a new frontier for Earth.
Years pass, and the Martian frontier is booming. Still, trouble looms back on Earth. A family senses the coming danger, and flees to Mars to start a new life. Will others fare so well, or has atomic war spelled the end for humanity?
See also:
- Dimension X – There Will Come Soft Rain – Zero Hour. ep11, ep11, 500617 – A story that depicts the atomic ending to this saga, and an additional story of alien invasion.
- X Minus One – And The Moon Be Still As Bright. 560422 – The part of the saga where our space travellers find the vacant city.
