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Before saying anything about this collection of short stories, it should be remembered that they were written in 1951, ten years before Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. Nevertheless, it must be also said that some of them have aged really badly (e.g. "The Long Rain" or the ones about Martians) while others are still genuine (e.g. "The Veldt" and, above all, "Kaleidoscope" and "The Rocket Man"). Some of them are to be read as a parable ("The Other Foot", "The Highway" and "The Long Rain"). "The Long Rain" is in fact a reformulation of that fable of Aesop in which two frogs fall into a deep cream bowl. I liked "The Other Foot" even when it is not as well written as some of the other stories because it was very daring for the time to publish a story in which instead of Second Reconstruction there is World War III and the black folk is paradoxically safe (doing the dirty work of) colonizing Mars for the white people while everybody else destroys the Earth to the point of completely nuking it."The Exiles": On a ship heading to Mars, a crew of badly injured men (probably because of cosmic radiation) carries the last preserved copies of a set of fantasy books banished on Earth. They all have had nightmares where fantasy beings and even the illustrious writers of those texts plot for the "rocket men" to bring back their fear and superstition over their boldness and science just before the ship lands on Mars. In "The Veldt", a domotic capsule takes over the role of the parents in such a way they are now not required at all for the upbringing of their children. (*) Sometimes you get the feeling that Bradbury ran out of new ideas towards the end of the book since the quality of the stories seems to decay. This is a 3.5/5 with mostly average written short stories, even when some of them are exceptional whereas others are quite boring. The most mediocre ones are like a bad script for a 1960s Star Trek series episode. *****SPOILER ALERT***** Are there (actual) parents at home? The answer is likely to be no, they seem to be also part of the simulation.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Before saying anything about this collection of short stories, it should be remembered that they were written in 1951, ten years before Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. Nevertheless, it must be also said that some of them have aged really badly (e.g. "The Long Rain" or the ones about Martians) while others are still genuine (e.g. "The Veldt" and, above all, "Kaleidoscope" and "The Rocket Man"). Some of them are to be read as a parable ("The Other Foot", "The Highway" and "The Long Rain"). "The Long Rain" is in fact a reformulation of that fable of Aesop in which two frogs fall into a deep cream bowl. I liked "The Other Foot" even when it is not as well written as some of the other stories because it was very daring for the time to publish a story in which instead of Second Reconstruction there is World War III and the black folk is paradoxically safe (doing the dirty work of) colonizing Mars for the white people while everybody else destroys the Earth to the point of completely nuking it."The Exiles": On a ship heading to Mars, a crew of badly injured men (probably because of cosmic radiation) carries the last preserved copies of a set of fantasy books banished on Earth. They all have had nightmares where fantasy beings and even the illustrious writers of those texts plot for the "rocket men" to bring back their fear and superstition over their boldness and science just before the ship lands on Mars. In "The Veldt", a domotic capsule takes over the role of the parents in such a way they are now not required at all for the upbringing of their children. (*) Sometimes you get the feeling that Bradbury ran out of new ideas towards the end of the book since the quality of the stories seems to decay. This is a 3.5/5 with mostly average written short stories, even when some of them are exceptional whereas others are quite boring. The most mediocre ones are like a bad script for a 1960s Star Trek series episode. *****SPOILER ALERT***** Are there (actual) parents at home? The answer is likely to be no, they seem to be also part of the simulation.