Reading Bradbury a second and third time is like exploring a natural wonder, finding more and more details and interconnections and wondering more andReading Bradbury a second and third time is like exploring a natural wonder, finding more and more details and interconnections and wondering more and more about how something like this can be both created and function so well.
The amazing thing is that, while recalling the short stories after getting absorbed by them, one realizes that there is often no real violence, many outer plots, explosions and kidnappings. Just the inner worlds of the characters and that magnificent all-knowing narrator mixed with this smooth language.
I find it fascinating how family trees of authors influencing each other are forming over generations as in this case with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne who influenced Bradbury, who influenced King, who influenced I don´t how many authors, it might be billions. And how similar the voice of an author becomes if he is in his XYauthor phase as for instance the older Stephen King short stories which remind me of Bradbury. Read all of them!
It´s more about the language than the plot Bradbury has such a unique writing style, everything comes so smooThermal utilization is an all time burner
It´s more about the language than the plot Bradbury has such a unique writing style, everything comes so smoothly and elaborately, full of metaphors and lively language. This, his most famous one, is a softer alternative to Orwell and Huxley, a more philosophical approach to the topic of censorship. Certainly one of the great works of the 20th century, if not of all time, reducing the story to some essential elements that
Can be seen in Brave new world and 1984 too A love story, an awakening antagonist, mass dumbing down by passive media consumption, substance abuse, propaganda, and a little grain of hope for a better tomorrow. It´s closer to Brave new world than to 1984 because the mind penetration aspect of brainwashing is bigger than pure death squad brutality. It´s also simply Bradburys style to avoid big action scenes and focus on character development, deeper meaning, and the language itself to create a picture of, well, freaking reality in very many places.
That´s by far not his top performance I understand why his other, as good and even better, works aren´t as appreciated as this short one. Bradbury is at his best when he is writing short story collections under a main theme, be it The Martian chronicles https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... or The Illustrated Man https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... One could go and start searching for all the interconnections between the stories and how perfectly they fit together, but the problem of having to begin again and again and getting out of reading flow is one of the main reasons why short stories aren´t selling so great. Maybe it was popular those days, I don´t know, but in the case of The Martian Chronicles, one of the first space opera novels could have been possible, the same with The Illustrated Man. It´s sadly one of the worst cases of unused serial production potential.
He was such a great writer and I don´t get why he didn´t rewrite all the material he had with those short stories into one or more longer novels. It somehow feels to me as if he had a tendency to avoid longer novels, but just imagine how it would have been if he had written them or even a series instead of all of those unique short stories. Boy, he would have owned them all. I mean, Stephen King names him and Lovecraft as main inspirations and the more often I read something from one of these titans, the more I have to agree on how my beloved master of horror came to his writing style.
Calm Sci-Fi stories that come with amazing plot twists and the unique writing style of a writer who has inspired generations of authors.
It´s somethingCalm Sci-Fi stories that come with amazing plot twists and the unique writing style of a writer who has inspired generations of authors.
It´s something different compared to the usual stories of Bradbury, a collection of ideas describing space colonization as imagined a long time ago. As always, the focus is on the characters and Bradbury uses the Sci-Fi tropes and plot devices in his stylish way of letting the surprise bubble burst in the last possible moment.
As it is the duty of each prodigy's story collections, vast lands of adaptable, extendable and simply copyable content is waiting to be reinterpreted. For instance by implanting the slow pace and philosophical ideas in one of the newer Sci-Fi novel or TV series that are running on this Hollywood blockbuster steroids to avoid any lengths that could get readers or viewers bored which is a pity because the combination of both could grow to something big.
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