Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
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In The Martial Chronicals, Ray Bradbury provides a glimpse into the
future that not only looks at people from a technological standpoint, but
from a human one as well. His well crafted, almost poetic stories are
science fiction in setting only. They put much more emphasis on the apathy
and inhu ....
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.... he took various jobs which
allowed him to devote much of his time to writing. His first story,
published in 1940 by Script magazine, was "It's Not the Heat, It's the
Hu" and established Bradbury's popular theme of social irritation. By 1942,
Bradbury was able to earn enough money writing that he could give up his
job selling newspapers and devote all of his time to what he loved.
(Candee 88)
As some critics would agree, the term "science-fiction" does not
apply to Bradbury's work. Mos ....
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