![]() ![]() The fourth season opener, Mars is Heaven (episode #31), aired in the US on 20th July 1990. The series was a Canadian/New Zealand co-production between Atlantis Films (now Atlantis/Alliance) and Avalon Television and it followed in the tradition of the still popular Twilight Zone. In the late 80's, an anthology television series called The Ray Bradbury Theatre debuted, based on Bradbury's numerous short stories. The subsequent book was entitled The Martian Chronicles and it proved to be a bestseller. In the late 50's, he began to gather these stories together using new material to connect and expand his vision. ![]() Between 19 Ray Bradbury wrote several stories about space explorations to our closest planetary neighbor, Mars. In later years, these writers would collect their short stories into anthologies of their own. Science fiction was not considered the stuff of novels, yet. Writers like Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein and Ray Bradbury would pound out scores of such stories on old manual typewriters for two and three cents a word. It was during those years that many of the best known practitioners of this genre got their start as short story writers for the numerous pulp anthologies that were around in those days. ![]() Many science fiction writers considered the 1940's and 50's to be the golden age of science fiction. Now on YouTube! Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 A review by Nicole Blizzard ![]()
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