The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

All That You Leave Behind (942 words)
by andrewl - written on 29/12/09 (Very useful, 59 readings)
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Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles is without question the gold standard for literary science-fiction, a collection of short stories centred around humanity's colonisation of the Red Planet, linked with vignettes and recurring characters to the point where it almost resembles a novel. Written largely towards the end of the 1940s, Bradbury was writing at a time when science-fiction lent itself more easily to the literary mode. You travel through space in rockets, machines do everything with their 'circuits', atom bombs are the deadliest thing ever imagined, and America rules space. So easy then to be cynical. But the fact that both science and science-fiction have moved ...

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Me ... (796 words)
by pje - written on 01/03/02, updated on 02/03/02 (Very useful, 1212 readings)
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of Fahrenheit 451 there's ever been, but it's such a good line I had to use it. ] Fahrenheit 451 was the synthesis of five short stories Ray Bradbury wrote in the early 1950's. Including "Bonfire" - about one man's thoughts on the night of the end of the world; "Bright Phoenix" about a small-town bigot whose book-burning activities are thwarted by people memorizing them; and "The Pedestrian" about a time in the future when walking is banned and pedestrians are treated like criminals - a tale based on an encounter he had with a cop in Los Angeles in 1951. Making use of a coin-operated typewriter on the UCLA campus, he ...