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A review by silverthane
R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
3.0
R is for Rocket is a small collection of 17 short stories written by Ray Bradbury.
Overall I was not very impressed with this book; it didn’t seem up to the usual standard I’ve come to expect from Bradbury’s imagination. Not all of the stories were science fiction which surprised me and many of those that were science fiction I had already read elsewhere. For example; The Rocket Man, The Long Rain and The Rocket were all featured in another (and vastly superior) collection of Bradbury’s short stories called ‘The Illustrated Man’ which is one of my favourite books.
Most of the stories weren’t very interesting and the few that were ended at the wrong time. Bradbury has been a prolific writer for such a long time and he has published so many short stories I suppose it is inevitable that sooner or later they would fail to make the grade. This book has been out of print for quite some time which doesn’t surprise me considering how many better books by Bradbury there are out there.
Overall I was not very impressed with this book; it didn’t seem up to the usual standard I’ve come to expect from Bradbury’s imagination. Not all of the stories were science fiction which surprised me and many of those that were science fiction I had already read elsewhere. For example; The Rocket Man, The Long Rain and The Rocket were all featured in another (and vastly superior) collection of Bradbury’s short stories called ‘The Illustrated Man’ which is one of my favourite books.
Most of the stories weren’t very interesting and the few that were ended at the wrong time. Bradbury has been a prolific writer for such a long time and he has published so many short stories I suppose it is inevitable that sooner or later they would fail to make the grade. This book has been out of print for quite some time which doesn’t surprise me considering how many better books by Bradbury there are out there.