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"I am first of all not a science fiction writer … I write, I suppose, what the Latin Americans call magic realism."
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![]() Mildred wears two of them; none of that painful reality stuff for her.
A classic description of the human animal in the age of technology.
For a current view of the state-of-the-art in Seashell radios, see the following commercial product - the Lobeman.
It turns out that these radios were not so far off; Bradbury wrote the novel in 1953; take a look at these pictures from Modern Mechanix magazine in November, 1959.
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