Science & Fiction

kambui:

S is for Space by Ray Bradbury…

(Source: buddhartha)

peabodywunderkammer:

In honor of the life of Ray Bradbury, we present to you an illustration from the Peabody Library’s copy of The Martian Chronicles. This edition was published in 1974 by the Limited Editions Club and features several illustrations by the artist Joseph Mugnaini. Call No.: 813.5 B7268 1974 QUARTO (Copy 800 out of 2,000)

book-aesthete:

The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury. Avon CT, Limited Editions Club, 1974.

Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. Black cloth, speckled with white, glassine dust jacket, matching board slipcase. No. 1935 of 2,000 copies. Signed by the author and illustrator at the limitation.

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“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

newyorker:

Ray Bradbury has just passed away at age ninety-one. In our most recent issue, Bradbury wrote about what inspired him to write science fiction, and we’ve unlocked the piece: http://nyr.kr/JvTNFV

“I memorized all of “John Carter” and “Tarzan,” and sat on my grandparents’ front lawn repeating the stories to anyone who would sit and listen.” - Ray Bradbury

myanonymouslair:

Ray Bradbury 1920-2012

I think I read one of my first Ray Bradbury stories when I was around eight or nine, and although I have read many more since then, it has stuck with me the longest. All Summer In A Day is etched in my memory. As I read it I lay there crying, empathizing so deeply with Margot who is constantly bullied and abused by classmates. Even though there are many other Bradbury stories that are considered classics and better written. All Summer In A Day is the one I always remember, because everyone knows what its like to be bullied and ostracized in one way or another.

You can see the 1982 PBS adaptation of All Summer in a Day here

You can read the text here (PDF)

science&fiction: Illustration for A Sound of Thunder, by Ray Bradbury.  

This time travel story (published for the first time in 1952) is the most re-published sci-fi story up to the present time (wikipedia).   This is also the very first Bradbury’s story I read (in a short story collection in French).  I must have been around 12 years old, and I didn’t understand the ending the first time.  But I read it again later.   Since then, I read all the Bradbury’s books I found in the public library.  

• You can read the story here. 
• You can see the comic adaptation here  
• You can watch the tv adaptation for the Ray Bradbury Theatre here 
• There is also a 2005 movie adaptation (I didn’t see it).  

total-solar-eclipse:

The Illustrated Man- Ray Bradbury. The best book i have ever read. 

(illustration by meechart)