I host an archive of email messages that go back to the early 1990s. They’re for the the Harp-L discussion group, a lively bunch of harp players that are still quite active. I received a message today from a person who claims that his name occurs on some messages on the group, and he wants […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Unofficial End of Fall
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love the cool days and chilly nights. I love pies made from fresh picked apples and the smell of pumpkins. I love the fall foliage. Fall always ends when a series of windy wet storms come through knocking the last of the leaves off the trees […]
Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Allegory: A figurative work in which a surface narrative carries a secondary, symbolic or metaphorical meaning. The Martian Chronicles, the 11th book by Bradbury that I’ve read this month is not really a novel and is more than a collection of short stories. It is not a novel because it does not have the plot […]
Plates on Tappan Zee Bridge Causing Backup
Saturday, October 25, 2008
The construction plates on the bridge made me late for the first half of the week and then they moved the barrier so that the morning traffic had 5 lanes going east and only two lanes going west. I feel sorry for the people trying to cross the bridge going west in the morning. Here […]
Listen to Phoenix descend
Friday, October 24, 2008
Since I am reading The Martian Chronicles I thought that listening to the sounds of the Phoenix Lander as it passes on its way to the surface of Mars would be appropriate. I have to figure out the right way to embed movies in blogger. Mars Express – Listen to Phoenix descend
The Vintage Bradbury
Thursday, October 23, 2008
There are only three stories in The Vintage Bradbury (1965) that were not in the previous anthologies. The Vintage Bradbury is the first (of many) Bradbury greatest hits collections. This one dates from 1965 and I remember being disappointed that there were only a few new stories. The stories are not really new, just not […]
Kontera links going away
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
I have been making less than $2 a day on the Kontera context links and page views have gone down since I put them on the page. I will wait a few more weeks (until I get $100) and then pull them. I have already taken them off the blog. In the mean time I […]
Lorelei of the Red Mist – Brackett & Bradbury
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Leigh Brackett, know as the Queen of Outer Space, was writing space opera stories for lurid pulps like Planet Stories in the 1940s. She wrote a hard boiled detective novel in 1944 and when William Faulkner was having trouble with the screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, Howard Hawks told his secretary to […]