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I liked a few of the stories but overall I was super bored. I think these classic sci-fi books are just not for me tbh.
One of Bradbury's rare novels (Fahrenheit 451 is another), my memory of it from my read decades ago as a teen was that it was amazing. On reread I feel its age shows. The Chronicles are a series of 26 vignettes first published in 1950 with two stories going back to 1948 and its as if it took the socio-politico obsessions of that era, and translated it into an interplanetary future fifty years hence that's now our present: Cold War Nuclear Holocaust, Jim Crow, the Red Scare are depicted in ways t
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A good book with a great ending line... Possibly a little dated but good nonetheless...
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