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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Ray Bradbury will forever be remembered as a writer of genre stories, yet most of his oeuvre reveals a stubborn resistance—that borders on obliviousness—to the accepted formulas of the pulp fiction trade. He has complained about the sci-fi label invariably applied to his work—“I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on r…

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