Sunday, April 22, 2018

Book Excerpt for the Day


    Eminent, eminent people, one and all, members of the Society for the Prevention of Fantasy, advocators of the banishment of Halloween and Guy Fawkes, killers of bats, burners of books, bearers of torches, good clean citizens, every one, who had waited until the rough men had come up and built the towns and repaired the highways and made everything safe.  And then with everything well on its way to Safety, the Spoil-Funs, the people with mercurochrome for blood and iodine-colored eyes, came now to set up their Moral Climates and dole out goodness to everyone.

    (from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury)

  7½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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