RIP Ray Bradbury

[firecat]

A story of Ray Bradbury's that has always haunted me, and one that seems appropriate for the occasion, is "There Will Come Soft Rains" from The Martian Chronicles. Wikipedia links to a PDF version of the story.

His book on writing, Zen in the Art of Writing is also superb.

Comments

[musyc]

Agreed on the hauntingness of that story. Of all of Bradbury's works that I've enjoyed, that story has stuck with me for ... twenty years? I don't even remember when I first read it, but it's always stuck in my head. I did a couple of papers on that one in college. The silhouettes on the wall is an image that I have neeeeeeeever forgotten.

I really need to get my hands on a copy of The Martian Chronicles. So many stories in there that were wonderfully, and terrifyingly, evocative.