The Exiles
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The Exiles is a Ray Bradbury short story in which the ghosts of banned authors and their fictional creations, exiled to Mars, confront the last Earthmen bringing their works to be destroyed.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
science fiction short story
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short story ⓘ |
| author | Ray Bradbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnEarlierWork | The Mad Wizards of Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
destruction of books on Earth
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psychological dependence of ghosts on surviving books ⓘ |
| earlierVersionPublicationYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| earlierVersionTitle | The Mad Wizards of Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
ghost of Ambrose Bierce
NERFINISHED
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ghost of Charles Dickens NERFINISHED ⓘ ghost of Edgar Allan Poe NERFINISHED ⓘ ghost of William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType |
Earth astronauts
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banned authors ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverseElement |
fictional creations of banned authors
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ghosts of banned authors ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasImagery | surreal Martian landscapes ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
decay of a dying Mars
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magic and witchcraft as metaphors for imagination ⓘ |
| hasTone |
fantastical
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melancholic ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | The Illustrated Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
allegory for cultural repression
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intertextual references to classic literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | mid-20th-century American science fiction ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depicting authors and their creations as literally sustained by their books
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early exploration of themes later expanded in Fahrenheit 451 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Ghosts of banned authors and their creations, exiled to Mars, confront the last Earthmen who come to destroy the remaining copies of their works. ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Doubleday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Fahrenheit 451 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkRelation | shares themes of censorship and book burning with Fahrenheit 451 ⓘ |
| setting | Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
book burning
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censorship ⓘ conflict between art and authoritarianism ⓘ freedom of imagination ⓘ power of literature ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | future relative to time of writing ⓘ |
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