ray bradbury

Recently I read The Illustrated Man by Bradbury for the first time and was surprised by how saturated it was with fear of the Bomb and of technology. The collection was published in 1951, only six year after the end of World War 2: The Soviets had only had the bomb for ~4 years, and wouldn't...

I've read a novel/short story when I was a kid about a human archeologist on mars, looking for past evidence of life, going thu the findings of a place pertaining to it then slowly transmorphing himsel into a martian upon that time, ending in, if my memories don't fail me, him taking a sun bath...

...Or was it pulled from folklore? Does anybody know why Bradbury chose the term if it originated with him? "The April Witch," written by Bradbury in 1952, is a short story that tells of a girl from a magical family who is called by the same term, and can basically astrally project and possess...

I was going down a rabbithole of 1950s/60s archived science fiction magazines, and I came across a story where, in the future, an undead man rose from his grave as his resting place, the world's last cemetery, was destroyed. He proceeded to try and destroy a future world that was much gentler...

Another reader asked about this story at another forum. It's not "The Martian" by Bradbury. The other reader remembers this:

Some good stories, some ok ones. The second story, The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse, just doesn't make sense at all. Drivel There's very little 'Octoberness' in this book, you get a hint of it here and there (The Dwarf, The Jar) but on the whole the cover image does not match the contents...

Opinion please. OT: Many people have said there favorite Author is HP Lovecraft. Including Stephen King.

Trying to remember a science fiction short story I read in a 7th grade English textbook in 1975. About a boy who lived in a boarding house. A strange man rents a room who seems to be afraid of a stained glass window, maybe a transom? When the boy finds the window is broken, he picks up the...

Bradbury shares some of his story writing technique in this 30 minute documentary from 1963:

starring Christopher Lee Leviathan '99

This has been driving me nuts for years. I read this story, probably in the '70s, in one of the old SF compendium magazines. It was about a boy growing up on a planet where people were born, grew up, and died within about a week (I want to say 5 days but I'm not sure about that). There was...

Recently, I saw Mr. Bradbury's name pop up on one of the other threads and it activated an old old annoyance in me. Many many many moons ago when I was new to sf I would see books by Bradbury with the blurb on the covers reading: Ray Bradbury World's Greatest Science Fiction Author. This would...

I probably read this as part of an SFF anthology from the library in the late 60's early 70's. I read a lot of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke and Bradbury in those days. I originally remember it as one of the stories in Bradbury's "Illustrated Man". A review of Wikipedia story synopses from that...

Sorry about vague details but I am looking for a story about (?)humans living in a valley where they only live for four days- they are born and have one day as a baby, then a child, one as an adult then one as an elderly person- it's possibly post-apocalyptic. There is a means to escape this but...

I found this dystopian novel to be somewhat disturbing - for the wrong reasons. The basic premise is that Montag is a "fireman" who goes around burning books - and any homes in which they are found. However, through the story we see him question his role in this, and face the moral problem of...

So these earthmen land on a "friendly" planet that seems to accommodate them with whatever it is they want. They never see any aliens But, it has nice weather. Beautiful scenery. One crewmember notices that the grass seems to have been mowed. One crewmember even runs like a kid, takes a leap...

Go here October's Obdurate Observations Of Outstanding Ouevres to find an otherwise buried series of comments on stories suitable for October reading. The discussion dates to 2011.

Forbidden Planets Edited by Peter Crowther Daw, Nov 2006, $7.99 ISBN: 0756403308 Paying homage to the landmark science fiction movie Forbidden Planet on the fiftieth anniversary of its release, these twelve tales focus on humans visiting other worlds or dimensions where they are unwelcome and...

Now and Forever Ray Bradbury Morrow, $24.95, 224 pp. ISBN 9780061131563 “Somewhere A Band Is Playing”. A suitcase is tossed off a moving train followed by James Cardiff jumping off next. He sees a perfect little town with buildings painted fresh, lawns mowed properly and everything seemingly...

We’ll Always Have Paris: Stories Ray Bradbury Morrow, Feb 3 2009, $24.95 ISBN 9780061670138 This twenty-one short story and one poem (“America”) anthology showcases the width and depth of the great science fiction novelist Ray Bradbury. As the author explains in his Introduction, his skin...