To be perused more completely later; a few of the stories point to current trends in child care's and foreign relations' respective relationships to technology.
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12 Oct 17
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eighteen science fiction short stories
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conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people
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unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device
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carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body
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unnamed narrator
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book was made into the 1969 film
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"Kaleidoscope"
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"The Other Foot"
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"The Highway"
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"The Man"
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"The Rocket Man"
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"The Fire Balloons"
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"No Particular Night or Morning"
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"The Fox and the Forest"
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"The Visitor"
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"The Concrete Mixer"
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"The City"
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"Zero Hour"
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01 Jun 11
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"The Veldt" — Two parents use an artificial "nursery" to keep their children happy. The children use the high-tech simulation nursery to create the predatorial environment of an African veldt. When the parents threaten to take it away, the children lock their parents inside where they are mauled and killed by the "harmless" machine-generated lions of the nursery.
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"The Highway" — A community of simple-minded people living by a highway in rural Mexico go on living their normal, idyllic lives as the highway fills with people fleeing a nuclear war. The story ends with some travellers they help telling them about the nuclear war, and how the world is ending. After the travelers leave, the confused resident briefly wonders what "the world" is, and then continues with his life.
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"Zero Hour" — Children across the country are deeply involved in an exciting game they call 'Invasion'. Their parents think it's cute until it turns out that the invasion is real and aliens are using the children to help them get control of Earth.
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