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(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!

Bradbury ile devam

putting "the man" in S tier just below "kaleidoscope". it reminds me of some of c.s. lewis's writings.

just finished "highway". i turned the page expecting the story to continue and it didnt, it felt like rushing up the stairs and mistakenly thinking theres another step until youre like WOAH thats it... anyway i really liked it, im just in love with bradburys style

Poe and Bierce go to see Charles Dickens, who is having a Christmas party with his characters. Turns out that when their books were banned, the authors were resurrected by their characters to save the worlds they created. Dickens, whose books were banned by mistake, wants nothing to do with the others and refuses to help Poe and Bierce. This ... doesn't really make sense.

The authors on Mars are setting traps for the arriving astronauts, all based on elements from their stories. It appears Earth banned supernatural and fantasy literature in favor of what's real. Interesting. But I still wanna know how these authors are alive. Are they Martians that took the forms of the authors? I don't know.