To Mars!

Earlier today, I finished reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. If you haven't read it, it's basically a collection of short bits about the colonization of Mars. Several of the chapters (including one about literary censorship and Edgar Allan Poe that I liked a lot) are short stories Bradbury had previously published elsewhere. The book came out in 1950, and a few sections feel a bit dated, but overall I liked it. I have a feeling that if people were colonizing Mars for real, I would be one of the ones to go. Humans have already messed up the Earth, polluting it to the point where everything causes cancer. Life on a new planet might be lonely and unpredictable, but think about it -- if you had a chance to start over someplace new, and be a part of creating a new way of life, wouldn't you want to do it?



The perfect soundtrack: Zia's song "To Mars." Download the MP3 here.