The Musicians

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"The Musicians" is a short story from Ray Bradbury’s science fiction collection *The Martian Chronicles*, depicting human encounters and eerie remnants on a colonized Mars.

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instanceOf science fiction story
short story
work of fiction
author Ray Bradbury NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts children playing among ruins
eerie remnants on Mars
human colonists on Mars
genre Martian fiction
science fiction
hasAuthorNationality American
hasCollectionPublicationYear 1950 (The Martian Chronicles)
includedIn various editions of The Martian Chronicles
language English
literaryMovement Golden Age science fiction NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalMedium print
partOf The Martian Chronicles NERFINISHED
publisherOfCollection Doubleday (for The Martian Chronicles) NERFINISHED
setting Mars NERFINISHED
a colonized Mars
theme childhood innocence
death
human encounters with alien environments
memory of Earth
the aftermath of catastrophe
the macabre
war and destruction
workChronologyPosition early story within The Martian Chronicles sequence

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The Martian Chronicles containsStory The Musicians