ciorac Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 If I find anything relevant to our discussions here, I'll share it. Mary Ann or Ginger? Both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 If I find anything relevant to our discussions here, I'll share it. Mary Ann or Ginger? Both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Calhoun Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Dear Mr Fantasy- Hear you’ve gone on a million year picnic. Have fun, enjoy your lunch, and thanks for everything. You are the king of the atomic age we love above all things. I look into the sky and see you smile Each time a young mind leaps between the stars. August 22, 1920 — June 5, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Two weeks ago I picked up a hardcover copy of Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales at a neighborhood yard sale. Think I'll have to crack it open tonight. Thanks Ray. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Paper Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 (edited) This is a hard day indeed. Ray was a hero of mine, and I considered him a friend, though I had not seen him in over six years. Truth be told, I guess anybody who ever spent five minutes with the man would have considered him a friend. He was just that kind of guy. Edited June 6, 2012 by Weird Paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB-Gun Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I was very pleased with the EC comics that used his stories. They inspired me to go on a science fiction reading rampage while I was in high school. HIs stories were always some of the best along with Asimov, Henderson, Kuttner, Ellison, Sturgeon and many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangZoom Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 Here is one of Ray Bradbury's stories that was adapted by Al Feldstein for EC comics back in the 1950's. Weird Fantasy #17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BangZoom Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 Wikipedia's historical context for "There Will Come Soft Rains" is illuminating: The story portrays a scene of obliteration, in which the human race has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb. The fear of the devastating effects of nuclear force was very applicable to the time period of the 1950s. The world was still recovering from the effects of World War II and events, such as the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan still seemed recent. In 1945, the United States released a nuclear bomb over the city of Hiroshima that destroyed nearly everything in the city. Three days later, Nagasaki was also bombed. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in these bombings, either from direct impact or the deadly effects of radiation that killed them within a few years of the incident. Even though the war ended shortly after these events, the fear of retaliation and the increasing focus on the development of nuclear weapons by many military powers worldwide, produced fear in the minds of people. After the war, tension increased between the two major military powers of the time, the U.S.S.R. and the United States, culminating in the Cold War. This era was also a time of uncertainty, and the idea of being bombed with a nuclear weapon was a daily fear This Peanuts strip from 1958 shows how routine the expectation was that we'd eventually have an atomic war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comics-n-ERB Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Wow, never seen this one BZ. Thanks for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theagenes Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Thanks for sharing that BZ. Bradbury was a true titan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 This is a hard day indeed. Ray was a hero of mine, and I considered him a friend, though I had not seen him in over six years. Truth be told, I guess anybody who ever spent five minutes with the man would have considered him a friend. He was just that kind of guy. I had a chance to meet him about a decade ago at a signing at a local book shop, but didn't take the time off work to do so. Bad call. RIP Mr. Bradbury, your legend will live on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excelsior1986 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Awesome. One of my favorite bradbury stories. I need to get me a copy of that book. I wonder how his death will affect the price of ECs with Bradbury stories in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 The last article from Ray Bradbury http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/04/120604fa_fact_bradbury When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents’ boarding house, in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing Amazing Stories, with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. Soon after, the creative beast in me grew when Buck Rogers appeared, in 1928, and I think I went a trifle mad that autumn. It’s the only way to describe the intensity with which I devoured the stories. You rarely have such fevers later in life that fill your entire day with emotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
