The Veldt | Science Fiction Theatre
In the following review, McLaughlin discusses the problems of adapting science fiction such as “The Veldt” to the stage.
To Ray Bradbury a toaster is an idea encrusted in chrome. A small idea, perhaps—one involving the relationship of heat to bread—but nevertheless an idea. More complex machines such as automobiles, TV sets, computers and missiles conceal ideas of a more complex sort. We are surrounded by these machine-ideas, says Bradbury, and we scarcely give them a thought. Yet they influence our lives more directly than Plato’s forms or Aristotle’s universals ever did.
Bradbury is a man who is seriously concerned with the ideas that machines have woven around us. One of the most...
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