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"Dating from 1971, this is one of Bradbury's best story collections. Not only does it have tales that could easily have come from _Martian Chronicles_ ("Night Call, Collect" and the melodramatic "The Lost City of Mars"), or from _Dandelion Wine_ ("Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine"), but there is also a marvelous homage to and parody of Hemingway ("The Kilimanjaro Device"), an uncharacteristically creepy portrait of an otherworldly loser ("Heavy-Set"), and several utterly delightful Irish stories (especially "The Terrible Conflagration up at the Place" and "The Cold Wind and the Warm"). There is even a prose-poem "cantata" that brings together the birth of Christ and space travel, for those who can appreciate that sort of thing."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book
- very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- part earth & part fantasy world
Coming of age
Yes
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- colonizing/homesteading another planet
Romance
Yes
Romance plotlets:
- destined love (dream or prediction)
Tech./$$$/Info hunt
Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying
- info about lifeform(s)/society/phenomena
Mental/magical powers focus
Yes
Robots, Computers, VR
Yes
Robot, PC, VR Plotlets:
- good robot(s)
Story involving clones/duplicates?
- good clones/duplicates
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Clones
Yes
Main Character
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century
- near future (later in 21st century)
- medium future 22-24th century
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a futuristic society
- empty, or nearly empty world
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Not Earth, in Solar System?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
How much dialogue?
- significantly more descript than dialog
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