Bradbury was for years science fiction's premier literary stylist and, although his heavy use of adjectives and metaphors can seem cloying today, he remains one of the most sophisticated writers in the genre. He is particularly fond of similes, depicting "housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets" in "Rocket Summer" and spaceships landing on Mars in "The Locusts": "The rockets came like drums, beating in the night.
The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke."
Much of the metaphoric.....
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