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…showed last 75 words of 1232 total…and illusion and not by proof and argument, and the moment he closes the cover the reflects he wakes up to their impossibility.' Wells here is contrasting his stories with those of Jules Verne, wich he calls, 'anticipatory inventions.' Viewed this way, virtually all of Bradbury's stories are fantasies, with Wells's concept of the 'good gripping dream' coming closest to describing their effect. Even today Ray Bradbury's place in literature is not clear.