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| burning of books for their dangerous knowledge. And in Bradbury's stories, with few exceptions, the people who go to space are the same people that populate his deceptively idyllic midwestern towns. His few stories about race are extremely heavy-handed, and his women characters are often underwritten and stereotyped. His work was the socially acceptable science fiction of postwar America, published in the glossies as well as the pulps,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and his politics are of that era. From Bradbury to,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for instance, Joanna Russ' We Who Are About To (1977) where a woman refuses to help "repopulate" a planet her ship has crashlanded onto,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there is a very deep chasm indeed.Bradbury at his best,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wrote stories that speak eloquently about human lives. In "Powerhouse," which appeared in his 1953 collection The Golden Apples of the Sun, a woman on her way through the desert to see her dying mother takes shelter in a power station, where she has a transcendent experience of the power of machines,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of nature, |
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