{"product_id":"book-11ex","title":"I, Mars","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlone on Mars for sixty years, Emil Barton has learned how to survive silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat he never learned was how to escape himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50572277350704,"sku":"BD11ex","price":3.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/11ex-Square-cover.jpg?v=1769776445","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-11ex","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}