This post is part of a series on Ray Bradbury and his book, “The Martian Chronicles,” which will run from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. ROCKET SUMMER Rocket Summer. I can almost hear the words being whispered as the artificial heat-wave from the rocket’s exhaust delivers this Ohio town from winter’s frozen grip,[…]
This post is part of a series on Ray Bradbury and his book, “The Martian Chronicles,” which will run from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. INTRO Ray Bradbury was born in 1920 and died just recently, in 2012. He’s probably best known for Fahrenheit 451, which as I’ve said elsewhere, I see as[…]
I mentioned a few posts ago that I was hoping to do a summer ‘book club’ of sorts, using Ray Bradbury’s SciFi classic, The Martian Chronicles. Since The Martian Chronicles is really a collection of short stories even more than a novel, it lends itself to being read in chunks pretty well. What I’d like[…]
I’m sure many of my readers are also fans of my friend, Wayne Thomas Batson, so you probably already know he has a new book coming out, the first book in his new Dreamtreaders series. He’s hoping those of you thinking about buying it will participate in his Amazon blitz to help raise the book’s[…]