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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
One aspect of TMC is that is was not conceived as a whole. Bradbury wrote his "Martian" stories as separate short stories, to be sold (and printed) as separate stories. Only later were they given the "mosaic novel" for, at the request of the publisher. Should all the stories be included? Only the ones that fit best? The ones the author (or publisher) liked?
I'm a "kitchen sink" type of person, I would have liked to have seen them all together.
But that's me. . .
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And of course we can't expect the stories to be accurate as to conditions on Mars of course either. Knowledge of the other planets was a lot different back when the stories were written. Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr books are a similar case.