When was the last time you savored good old, really thrilling science fiction and fantasy? No, I don’t mean the novels of Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) and Arthur Clarke (1917-2008), which belong to the same illustrious league but are intellectually more demanding reading, nor the latter-day novels of the ultimate in horror by Stephen King (born 1947), but the simple, finely wrought tales of imagination and terror by a master of the genre—Ray Bradbury.
This week the Forum presents a retrospective on Bradbury, now 90, who is widely recognized as one of the best—if not the best—American science-fiction writers of all time. And to give you a taste of Bradbury and his masterful use of plain and simple but powerful English prose, we provide a link to his seminal short story on time travel, “A Sound of Thunder,” and an excerpt from his highly acclaimed novella about the terrors of youth,
Something Wicked This Way Comes. Enjoy!
Read “Ray Bradbury’s stories: A gift of language and the imagination” now!
