The Future

Ray Bradbury saw the future.  Though incredible, it was not always pretty.

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When a catastrophic explosion occurs in orbit, the survivors hurtle away in different directions, connected only by communication through their helmet radios.  Suddenly, space feels frighteningly empty …

 

 

 

But the Earth is busy with numerous adaptations of this story as well movies and music all inspired by this story.  Here is Peter Schilling’s Major Tom (Coming Home):

And don’t forget the recent movie based loosely on the same story: Gravity.  It wasn’t the first or the Second.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Martian Chronicles

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong. (Simon & Schuster, Amazon.com)

A Pleasure to Burn

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories is a collection of pieces written prior to while leading to Fahrenheit 451.

Grandmaster of American Letters, Ray Bradbury presents the sixteen vintage stories and novellas that informed and prefigured the creation of his dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451. Collecting rare and unknown tales as well as notable early triumphs, A Pleasure to Burn offers an unparalleled window into Bradbury’s creative process, and a unique glimpse at the evolution of one of the greatest works of 20th century American literature—A Pleasure to Burn illuminates the unusual hidden corners of Bradbury’s expansive imagination, revealing a creative force asvivid and powerful as the hottest burning flame.

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life. (Simon & Schuster, Amazon.com)

 

Leviathan ’99

The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . . (Harper, Amazon.com)

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