Tag: ray bradbury

  • Perfect Stories

    29 Sep 2021 » 3 min read

    One of the things I love about baseball is that it is possible to have a “perfect game.” A perfect game is one in which a pitcher faces 27 batters, and not one of them gets on base. There are no hits, no walks, no one hit by a pitch, no one ever making it…

  • Ray Bradbury: The Rocket Man (1920-2012)

    07 Jun 2012 » 4 min read

    The science fiction world, and much of the world at large is weeping today because we lost a giant. I can’t recall when I first heard the name “Ray Bradbury” but in my limited memory, it seems as if I was born with the name, that there was never a time I didn’t know who…

  • Writers and writers

    01 Feb 2011 » 3 min read about Writing & Publishing

    I think that there is some kind of transition period between being just a fan of science fiction to being a science fiction writer. At least, that’s the way it is working out for me. Despite having some street cred (3 professional sales), I still look at other writers as if they are, well, Writers.…

  • Science fiction mysteries

    10 Dec 2010 » 3 min read

    I had an epiphany the other day. There is a certain kind of science fiction story (including novels) that I particularly like. It’s been hard for me to classify what these stories are. In the past I’ve thought of them as space opera, like Isaac Asimov‘s FOUNDATION series or Arthur C. Clarke‘s ODYSSEY series. But…

  • Dandelion Wine Sequel

    24 Apr 2006 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    This coming October, Ray Bradbury is coming out with a new novel called Farewell Summer, which is, apparently, a sequel to Dandelion Wine, and which Bradbury has been working on for several decades. What I could find online seems to indicate that the book is once again about Doug Spaulding, and is a coming-of-age tale…