@booklet {1308, title = {"Pillar of Fire"}, howpublished = {Planet Stories (New York)}, volume = {3.11}, year = {1948}, note = {

Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co., 1959), 1: 141-69; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 101-38; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 579-616, with a Chronology (919-936, a Note on the Text (947, with a minor correction noted on 949) and Notes (968-969).

}, month = {Summer 1948}, pages = {38-58}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia in which there is no crime or violence and a man from the past starts murdering people. Bradbury considers it a precursor to Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} }