lacriale
Lacriale is a fictional planet featured in the science fiction novel "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury. The planet is depicted as a world where humans attempt to colonize and escape a dying Earth. Upon arrival, the human settlers find that Mars, or Lacriale as they come to call it, is already inhabited by a civilization of intelligent, ethereal beings. These beings are described as existing in a state of deep harmony and spiritual connection with their planet.
The interactions between the human colonists and the Lacriale inhabitants are a central theme of Bradbury's
As the colonization of Lacriale progresses, the human attempts to impose their culture and way of life