![]() ![]() The Golden Apples of the Sun ( 1953), the title of which alludes to Yeats's ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’, contains stories mainly set in the future, several of them dealing with wanderers, such as the title story about the captain of a spaceship whose task is to skim the surface of the sun. ![]() Among his best-known collections of interlinked stories are The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 UK title The Silver Locusts, 1951) containing ‘The Fire Balloons’, set on Mars, concerning missionary priests and ethereal aliens and The Illustrated Man ( 1951), in which a mythical circus man's tattoos come eerily to life as fantastic tales. American novelist and short-story writer, born in Waukegan, Illinois, educated at Los Angeles High School. ![]()
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