Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man

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Science fiction is any type of writing that has technology, intelligent robots, or any altered scientific principles. The novel The Illustrated man by Ray Bradbury is about a man whose body tells stories. The novel is science fiction because it uses technology. The Illustrated Man also uses technology as the main conflict. In the Veldt and Marionettes Inc. technology is supposed to improve human life. All technology does is fail the people making their lives more complicated.

The chapter The Veldt uses technology to improve their lives when it really becomes their main conflict. The role technology portrays in the Veldt is the nursery, the nursery is a room in the families house that almost acts like parents to the children. Technology has
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