- Science fiction, Children's fiction
The veldt is a story from the compilation, The Illustrated Man. This is a cautionary tale about computer dependence.
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Grave, intimate, classical in form and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 44
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning, Creative Education, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780886821081
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Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his stature i
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