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‘The Pedestrian’ continues in the same vein of other stories in this anthology regarding a future where robotic and cookie-cutter belief of how everyone should act wins over individualism, imagination, and curiosity.

‘The Man’ was a short story about faith that I didn’t expect but was not bad. Though I’m reading this as an audiobook and the narrator has a forceful shout that can be off-putting and I don’t enjoy.

‘Time in Thy Flight’ is a very short story similar to the vampire/zombie story (‘Pillar of Fire’?) on nostalgia and things that may be lost in future culture (western-centric).

Chrysalis reads like a longer, inferior version of Fever Dream from a different, less interesting pov.

‘The Great Collision of Monday Last’ and ‘The Little Mice’ k so I read a come t somewhere about Bradbury being a racist and I just shrugged. I only read Fahrenheit 451 at that time (which I enjoyed). Reading these 2 short stories now… well, yeah I see it.

‘Time for Going Away’ certainly describes the feeling of melancholy and malaise