The science fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury holds an unusual place in American letters. Ignored or undervalued by a sizable portion of the critical elite during his lifetime, he nevertheless became one of the most popular and anthologized authors of the twentieth century on the strength of such thought-provoking short stories as “A Sound of Thunder,” “There Will Come Soft Rains,” and “The Veldt” and the novels The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and especially Fahrenheit 451, a midcentury divination of a forced-egalitarian, tech-addicted future that reads today like creative nonfiction.
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