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. THE SHORE This short vignette captures the ‘frontier’ feel of the American story and transports it to Mars, imagining that the first men were hardened men who were[…]
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. THE SETTLERS This is one of my favorite of the smaller vignettes in the book. The list of reasons at the beginning for men going to Mars, including[…]
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. – AND THE MOON BE STILL AS BRIGHT Well, we’ve reached what is in many ways the fundamental ‘pivot’ in “The Martian Chronicles.” In the first three expeditions,[…]
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. THE TAXPAYER In the third, short vignette in The Martian Chronicles, we have the first overt reference to the post-atomic tension I’ve mentioned a few times already. The[…]
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. THE SUMMER NIGHT In the second short vignette, the telepathy element of Ylla gets more play here, as Bradbury pictures an unseen connection between the people of Mars[…]
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[…]
This Thursday, March 20th, CBD will be selling “The Darker Road” as an eBook for just $1.99. It’s part of their “Daily Deals” program. In order to take advantage of this deal, follow the link below and sign up for notification of their daily deals. Then, when you get the email on Thursday about the[…]