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No Particular Night or Evening - ★★★★★ 11. He might not be Chekhov, but on his best days and with his best stories, he isn't far behind.

Now, I read these stories and I think DAMN Bradbury can write the pants off all but the best short story writers. I was a kid, so I was fixated on the story, the surprise, the horror. Reading these reminded me how little I appreciated Bradbury's prose when I was young. He was light on scifi (it was a light frame) and heavy on characters, but he kept enough of the pulpy scifi tropes to make you almost unaware of the pill you were swallowing until it was completely absorbed. He wrote about alienation, loneliness, jealousy, racism, and fear in new ways. It is recommended that the children read other Ray Bradbury stories from The Illustrated Man alongside these ones. Not the first star in the night, but the one that tore a bit of the sky open for the rest. His stories (and books as well) are part of our modern psyche. I've recently returned to him as a father and an adult and get to re-establish connection to this great writer of American pop-lit. I permanently dented my aunt's couch one summer reading Vonnegut and Bradbury. I remember reading him for fun, reading him anthologized, reading him again and again. He is 180-proof literary, pulp, scifi nostalgia. So I kind of took that idea and ran with that.“I shall remain on Mars and read a book.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury is forever connected to my youth. “In that book, there was a story called The Rocket Man, which was about how astronauts in the future would become sort of an everyday job.

It actually wasn’t inspired by that at all it was actually inspired by a story by Ray Bradbury, from his book of science fiction short stories called The Illustrated Man.

Lyricist Bernie Taupin, who collaborated with Elton on all his major hits explained in 2016: “People identify it, unfortunately, with David Bowie’s Space Oddity. A lot of people thought that the line in the song that says “I'm gonna be high as a kite by then” meant that the track was riddled with evil drug references, but the actual meaning of the song was more literal, coming only three years after man first walked on the moon in July 1969.Įlton John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin pose for a portrait in circa 1973.