Current reading: revisiting The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury. First read was back in my early teens, when I devoured Bradbury, Poe etc.
My SF Book Group choice for April. With the health crisis I've missed the last two, hoping to make this one & see everyone again.
#books #livres #AmReading #bookstodon #TheMartianChronicles #RayBradbury
A definitive guide to the American political dystopia — from Fahrenheit 451's burning books to Octavia Butler's eerily prescient 2024, Philip K. Dick's manufactured realities, Ursula Le Guin's anarchist ambiguity, and N.K. Jemisin's enslaved geological workers. Why these five writers share a single tradition, and what that tradition demands of the reader.
This is hilarious. Found floating around Facebook.
#RayBradbury Reveals the True Meaning of #Fahrenheit451: It’s Not About #Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by #TV”
in Books | August 10th, 2017 9 Comments
' 'Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship,' wrote the Los Angeles Weekly’s Amy E. Boyle Johnson in 2007. 'Nor was it a response to Senator #Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands.' Rather, he meant his 1953 novel as 'a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.' "
https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html
#Idiocracy #DumbingUsDown #PutDownThePhones #AISucks #ReadABook
Just remembered that #RayBradbury's #Fahrenheit451 predicted (something like) Bluetooth earbuds about 50 years before they became a thing.
I remember reading that part of the book in the early 90s and being rather puzzled about it. 😄
Nos hacía mirarnos a nosotros mismos y pensar: “Si hemos logrado esto, ¿qué más seremos capaces de hacer?” Sin embargo, conforme pasaron los años desde la última misión tripulada en 1972, la pregunta se ha vuelto un poco más melancólica: “Si habíamos logrado aquello, ¿por qué no fuimos capaces de hacer más?”
#cienciaficcion #solarpunk #raybradbury
https://www.maikciveira.com/2019/07/convector-toynbee-el-futuro-que-puede.html?m=1
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for."
~ Ray Bradbury
"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men's hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped."
-- #FirstSentences of Ray Bradbury's "The Long Rain"
What a great opening!
Ray Bradbury's writing style blends lyrical prose, poetic metaphor, and sensory dread into something entirely his own. Explore four case studies — Fahrenheit 451, There Will Come Soft Rains, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Dandelion Wine — and two deep dives into his mastery of metaphor and his use of traditional family as anchor in fantastic settings.
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