"This is Montag, Block 813!"
Posted on 06/06/2012 3:21:57 PM PDT by montag813
"This is Montag, Block 813!"
Glad you posted it
I was never a big science fiction fan, but I loved “Something Wicked This Way Comes.”
I remember seeing William Buckley say that Ray Bradbury was more conservative than he was.
Well that makes sense being Something Wicked is Fantasy (Ray wrote both equally well)
Sure gonna Miss Mr. Bradbury. He was one of my Favofite writers!
Unfortunately not all sci fi writers share Bradbury’s vision of liberty. Just last week Elizabeth Moon who writes some good mil sci fi said that she believed all people should be bar coded so they can be easily identified and located. Bradbury would recoil at that suggestion. RIP Mr Bradbury.
I JUST bought my book-loving teen Fahrenheit 451 last week. She loves to read, and I wanted her to read some classics, so I bought that, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm. I didn’t realize he had died yesterday. I am honestly so sad. Something Wicked This Way Comes was an absolute favorite of mine.
My favorite SF book was “October Country” by Bradbury.
The Golden Apples Of The Sun
Classics? Les Miserables”,”The Count of Monte Cristo”, “A Tale of Two Cities”, “The Canterbury Tales”, “Crime and Punishment”, “The Travels of Marco Polo”, “Bleak House”...
She will get to them. I picked those three because I loved them when I was her age (13). I enjoyed the books you mentioned when I got a bit older. Plus, she loved Hunger Games, so I thought LotF would be a good way for her to see how modern fiction is inspired. I picked Animal Farm because hubby and I talk politics a lot, and I thought it was a good choice to introduce her. I picked Fahrenheit 451 because I loved it so much, period. I have so many to introduce to her, but her school has no required reading, and I kind of just try to judge best what she is ready for right now.
I really enjoyed “The Hobbit” at that age. :{) I envy people who haven’t read the great books because they can still look forward to the experience of doing so.
I was thinking Bradbury must have been one of the last authors whose initial works originally appeared in old pulp magazines (before they were replaced by paperbacks and the somewhat ‘similar to pulp’ digests).
“I am aware of his work”
I would recommend “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Heinlein as well. VERY freedom oriented.
Could we put together a lising of Classic 60’s and 70’s sci fi titles?
I would love to reread some of them. I remember bits and pieces of the stories and would love to read them again.
copty and add:
I, Robot
The Foundation Trilogy
“I was thinking Bradbury must have been one of the last authors whose initial works originally appeared in old pulp magazines...”
You may be right. Frank Frazetta passed two years ago, after illustrating the covers of so many of those works. They may all be gone now. Good stuff, fun times.
Silverburg, C L Moore, so many. Robert E. Howard remains my favorite. Fortunately there are still a lot of good fantasy and sci-fi writers out there, even in the miasma of PC. Terry Brooks comes to mind. There was a grandeur and austerity to the older writers though that seems to be missing now. The focus now seems to be on more personal, intimate portrayals rather than archetypes.
Rambling paragraph, sorry. Been working long hours to keep my business up.
Bradbury, Asimov, Vonnegut - three of my heroes. God bless you all for making us want to be smart as children.
Dune.
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