![]() The story is expressed in terms far more Freudian than we would use now, but otherwise the dynamics between parents and children are eternal. and their increasingly panicked attempts to reign their children in after years of giving in to every whim would be an absolutely brutal takedown of the Internet and social media’s effects, except it was written sixty years before those things existed. This is the kind of eerie prescience that earns futuristic fiction its reputation.Ī story of a mother and father who foolishly buy their children something we would now call an augmented reality playroom. Reading it again, as a parent, it hits really different. The last time I read this I think I was a teenager. ![]() However, this should be a fun review as it has been more than twenty years since I last picked up this collection, and much has changed in my own life in that interval. Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man is a book I have owned for a long long time. ![]()
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