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Entries Tagged as 'Ray Bradbury'

The Phoenix Landing & The Martian Chronicles

May 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments

They came because they were afraid or unafraid, happy or unhappy. There was a reason for each man. They were coming to find something or get something, or to dig up something or bury something. They were coming with small dreams or big dreams or none at all—Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles)
When I was but [...]

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Tags: Mars · Martian Chronicles · Phoenix Landing · Ray Bradbury · aliens · books · science · science fiction · space exploration

Book Burning

May 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments

A really violent and disturbing form of censorship is, of course, book burning. Wikipedia defines ‘book burning’ as the “practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material.” The practice, usually carried out in public (like public hangings in Medieval times, eh?) is generally motivated by moral, [...]

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Tags: Fahrenheit 451 · Heinrich Heine · Ray Bradbury · book burning · censorship