![]() ![]() ![]() He evoked the bucolic small-town life in stories like “The Handler,” “Lets Play Poison,” “The Jar,” “The October Game,” and countless others, so that he could lift that particular rock and show the nasty things squirming underneath. I’d build on what Terry and Ellen have said and call Bradbury the Norman Rockwell of dark fantasy. His death makes me think I need to reread some of those amazing stories. He showed us a Norman Rockwell side of America, then twisted the knife. ![]() I haven’t reread any but “Heavy Set” recently but that one, to me, shows the falsehood that he was always sentimental. I remember the best of them being fascinating (the Mars stories), strange, moving, and sometimes terrifying. Iconic to America, important to us (writers) all.īradbury’s short stories were very important to me growing up. Never saw much need to change or develop. Technically very precocious and proficient. If you don’t see the drop down menu, please click here. If you’d like to read it all on a single page, select ‘View All’ from the drop down menu above. Would anyone like to reflect on his passing?Īs always, this discussion is broken up into multiple pages for ease of reading. Perhaps one of the most influential and most widely read sf authors of the last hundred years. Last week we lost Ray Bradbury at the age of 91. ![]()
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