tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post5526941102279872820..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: There Will Come Soft Rains....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-33030309665977662612012-06-07T09:24:18.373-05:002012-06-07T09:24:18.373-05:00The Thought Criminal -
Thanks, great suggestion!The Thought Criminal -<br /><br />Thanks, great suggestion!Windhorsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-87721421849655553612012-06-07T05:24:31.172-05:002012-06-07T05:24:31.172-05:00Windhorse, I try to remember to use TinyUrl to con...Windhorse, I try to remember to use TinyUrl to convert the long ones.<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-83404528578068420092012-06-06T18:17:07.546-05:002012-06-06T18:17:07.546-05:00Don't know why those links are getting truncat...Don't know why those links are getting truncated.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/<br />Images/B0007F7DOE/ref=dp_image_0/178-0188675-5402071?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=booksWindhorsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-5730251767421260772012-06-06T18:14:12.609-05:002012-06-06T18:14:12.609-05:00Here's a Bradbury with a classic Frazetta cove...Here's a Bradbury with a classic Frazetta cover:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0007F7DOE/ref=dp_image_0/178-0188675-5402071?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=booksWindhorsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-80791712121578479912012-06-06T15:53:49.449-05:002012-06-06T15:53:49.449-05:00Windhorse--
I have a nearly complete set of the B...Windhorse--<br /><br />I have a nearly complete set of the Ballantine editions, the ones with the quasi-surrealist covers, all of which proclaim Bradbury "The Greatest Living Science Fiction Author" on the back.<br /><br />And all of which cost, at most, $.75. Yeah, I'm that old.<br /><br />Scott--<br /><br />I remember being assigned a Bradbury book in high school, and I was simultaneously thrilled and a bit disappointed. All fantasy and science fiction had been my private, i.e,. non-school, domain to that time.<br /><br />I still don't care to treat Bradbury as "literature." I still prefer to be the child who was thrilled to find a new volume with the familiar black spine and the weird artwork on the cover.....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-89366545190413806042012-06-06T15:37:49.121-05:002012-06-06T15:37:49.121-05:00I'm from a later time, after Bradbury's ma...I'm from a later time, after Bradbury's major works were relegated to safe, "literature" status, and therefore less interesting... but "Halloween tree" holds a special place in my heart, and "Something Wicked This Way Comes," still holds a special place in my giblets, the place, y'know, where they're frozen in terror...Scott the Obscurenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-65650797600146210932012-06-06T14:37:59.908-05:002012-06-06T14:37:59.908-05:00Long before I knew the concept of "ordering&q...<i>Long before I knew the concept of "ordering" books, I would enter any store with a rack of paperbacks (those were the days!)</i><br /><br />Those really <i>were</i> the days. Standing in front of the science fiction and fantasy titles with the compelling artwork on the covers depicting strange and alien worlds made me feel as if I were standing on a precipice facing a space of limitless possibility and promise.Windhorsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-18753750498674507122012-06-06T09:56:17.599-05:002012-06-06T09:56:17.599-05:00The original title (in "The Magazine of Fanta...The original title (in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction") was even more poetic: "A Final Scepter, A Lasting Crown...."<br /><br />No, Bradbury was not "great," ultimately, but as you say, his influence was so vast and deep.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-28130412899384890322012-06-06T09:53:14.140-05:002012-06-06T09:53:14.140-05:00It's hard to consider him a "great" ...It's hard to consider him a "great" writer, but he had such an influence on so many of us.<br /><br />A small example: while watching the Diamond Jubilee regatta Sunday, I couldh't help telling my family about Bradbury's story, "Henry IX, " in which only one man remains in England, the rest having fled because of the wretched weather. At least, I think that's what it was about--I haven't read it since high school (the early 1970's). The ideas persist.rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com