![]() ![]() When asked about his profession Mead tells the car that he is a writer, but the car does not understand since no one buys books or magazines in the television-dominated society. It is the only police unit in a city of three million as the purpose of law enforcement has disappeared with everyone watching television at night. "In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time." On one of his usual walks, he encounters a police car, which is robotic. Mead enjoys walking through the city at night, something which no one else does. In the city the sidewalks have fallen into decay. The story features Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in November of A.D. ![]() It is included in the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), but was dropped from later editions of this collection (19). ![]() This story was originally published in the Augissue of The Reporter by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. " The Pedestrian" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. ![]() For other uses, see The Pedestrian (disambiguation). ![]()
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