I, Mars, Ray Bradbury
I, Mars, Ray Bradbury
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I, Mars

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Miguel Khoury

Unabridged: 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2026


Synopsis

Alone on Mars for sixty years, Emil Barton has learned how to survive silence.What he never learned was how to escape himself.On his eightieth birthday, a telephone rings for the first time in decades. The voice on the line is young, confident, cruel—and unmistakably his own. A recording made long ago, when Barton was stranded on Mars as a young man, now speaks back across time. As more voices begin to call—copies of himself scattered across abandoned Martian cities—the line between memory, machinery, and madness begins to collapse.In I, Mars, Ray Bradbury delivers a haunting psychological science-fiction tale about isolation, identity, and the terrifying persistence of the past. Set against the silent red landscapes of Mars, this mid-century classic explores what happens when technology refuses to let loneliness end—and when the future becomes trapped in an endless conversation with its own younger self.First published in Super Science Stories in 1949, I, Mars remains a chilling meditation on time, regret, and the cost of waiting too long to go home.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.


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