![]() ![]() He demonstrates a masterfully versatile-maybe even acrobatic-approach to writing and worldbuilding. One story won’t necessarily be anything like the next. When you begin reading a Ray Bradbury short story collection, you never know what’s going to coming. You can start with a hook, and end in the middle. They’re untied from constraints, owe less to pacing and exposition, character development, or any of that stuff. I quickly understood that short stories could actually be better than novels for certain narratives-they can fit in more punch in less time. I didn’t know I was a short story person, but Ray Bradbury was the one to change that. I was fairly shocked at first, but then yielded to the distinctive, unforgettable stories, worlds, and situations that Bradbury builds. Especially not a collection of full-on sci-fi stories.īut you know what? I loved it. I’d never really read a collection of short stories before. Or, at least, I thought I was picking up a novel… I started reading and quickly realised that it was a collection of short stories. ![]() Then, somewhere in the summer of 2016, I picked up a third novel on a whim- The Martian Chronicles. And these were the Bradbury novels that I actually read first. And that’s exactly what makes his writing great-he renews that sense of wonder, a feeling that’s so easy to lose.īradbury is best known for his novels, such as Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451 (which was made into a well-received 1966 film). This is how Ray Bradbury opens The Martian Chronicles. ![]()
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