August 7, 1951. The issue of The Reporter bearing this date featured a short story by Ray Bradbury called "The Pedestrian." It was science fiction. It was also crime fiction. Briefly, in the year 2131 a man is arrested for walking down a city street. (I feel obliged to say that in this case his race had nothing to do with it.) Bradbury wrote it after being stopped (but not arrested) by cops in southern California for the same offense. You can read the story
here or in his collection
The Golden Apples of the Sun.
No comments:
Post a Comment