Ray Bradbury is often labeled as science fiction, but having read hundreds (!) of his stories I know he defied genre. He wrote of space opera, he wrote of horror, he wrote of comedy, he wrote of nostalgia, he wrote of utopia and dystopia. Dandelion Wine is just another in other example of why Bradbury was one of the greatest writers of all time, and you don't need to put a genre label on any of them. I remember there's a line in one of his storys about a man who traveled into the future and then ended up creating it so it came true. Bradbury might have well been talking about himself