Status Updates From The Illustrated Man

Just started reading the eleventh story, "No Particular Night or Morning". Two astronauts, Hitchcock and Clemens, are in space a billion miles from Earth. While Clemens keeps the belief that Earth still exists, Hitchcock believes it no longer exists because he cannot see it or touch it. I will admit, Hitchcock is a sensible, practical man.

(46/186) what if my name was Ray Bradbury and I was bored so I wrote a story about Jesus’s second coming on some random planet the day before it makes first contact with aliens (Earthlings)? Like bro. How does one think up this bullshit 😭

(39/186) my only question about The Other Foot is how did only black people make it to Mars??

just finished "the rocket man", its definitely my second or third favourite so far, i cant decide

Witchy lady in the middle of Wisconsin? Checks out.

(27/186) Bradbury has me pondering about death and how we all die alone at 2:30am. That’s no good. It was cool setup for a story about facing certain death.

(19/186) the illustrated man is so troubled :/ also this book has the tiniest fucking print ever

Finished "The Exiles"! The astronauts step out of their rocket, build a fire, and burn all the books they have, exterminating the authors and their creations. One of them sees the Emerald City getting destroyed and remembers reading those books as a kid, then is told to report for psychoanalysis. Censorship has won. Overall, I don't know how I feel about this story.

It turns out that when the last of the authors' books are burned, they and their characters cease to exist permanently. This happens with Bierce as the authors prepare for the attack. As the rocket descends, Poe orders the attack, but all attempts miss. When the rocket lands, they all go running to kill the astronauts with their bare hands as their books are already getting burned. Here we go!