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Permalink Reply by John Booth on June 7, 2012 at 10:38pm

Tonight, I wrote about the time Ray Bradbury sent me a letter: http://johnbooth.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/hail-and-farewell-ray-bra...

And I wrote this list of some of my favorite Bradbury stories a few years ago on his 86th birthday:

• “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” This one I found in a 1967 anthology called Time Untamed – which includes a jaw-dropping collection of authors: Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Clifford D. Simak, John Wyndham, Theodore Sturgeon, L. Sprague DeCamp and Fritz Leiber – and it’s fantastic.
• “The Toynbee Convector”
• “Banshee”
• “The Town Where No One Got Off”
• “A Sound of Thunder”
• “The Small Assassin”
• “The Lake”
• “The October Game” The penultimate paragraph begins: “Everyone sat in the dark cellar, suspended in the suddenly frozen task of this October game;” and damned if just re-reading the ending of this story to type that sentence didn’t raise goosebumps on my arm. The. Darkest. Bradbury. Ever.
• “Fever Dream”
• “The Veldt”
• “Night Meeting”
• “Kaleidoscope” Only Bradbury could take the premise of astronauts perishing after a rocket explosion and make it equal parts uplifting and heartbreaking.
• “The Long Rain” If you don’t feel soaked to the bone after this one, you didn’t read it slowly enough. Throw the real world version of Venus out the window – Bradbury’s is what it should be like.
• “Chrysalis”

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Permalink Reply by Byron Raphael on June 11, 2012 at 11:20am

I read All Summer in a Day when I was little and it really affected me. A later class had us read Fahrenheit 451. After that I was hooked.

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