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Story # 1: Ray Bradbury - Marionettes, Inc.

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author.   Best known for his dystopian   novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century American genre writers. 

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dystopia: a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.

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"Marionettes, Inc.", is a short story by Ray Bradbury from his collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man. It was originally published in Startling Stories (March, 1949). In the story, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's stories. The characters are Braling and Smith and their annoying wives.

The common thread in these stories is deception.
What about deception in Marionettes, Inc? 
Did it lead to an unexpected complication? Which?

Unit 7- Leisure & Entertainment

How have people´s leisure activities changed over the last fifty years? What can people of your generation do that your parents and grandparents couldn´t do?

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New reader

We should not deceive ourselves: the settlers could very well succeed.
Alana Suskin  September 16, 2012 

What's it like to act in two directions at once—to deceive the audience and the other characters on the show at the same time?
Andrew Romano October 13, 2013 

• In short, he did just what he needed to do to deceive the cops until it was too late.
  Christopher Dickey April 3, 2012 
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Deception is usually frowned on as morally unacceptable, but is it always wrong? Can hiding or distorting the truth sometimes have good effects, adding to the sum of human happiness? 

This collection contains stories by Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Maeve Binchy, V.S. Naipaul, Somerset Maugham, Frederick Forsyth, Clare Boylan, Paul Theroux, Oscar Wilde, and Joanna Trollope.

Ladies and gentlemen.... this is our new reader.

Welcome to ten stories full of secrets and lies, from a light-hearted bit of fun to dark and desperate deceit; but whether harmless or evil, deception can sometimes lead to quite unexpected complications.

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