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30 December 2007, 07:50 AM
4Ray
New Years Eve
Anyone know what Ray B, will be doing Monday night?

Happy New Year!!
30 December 2007, 11:53 PM
WildGravity
No, but I'll be working!


If there is a God, I know he likes to rock.
31 December 2007, 12:25 PM
biplane1
I just called Ray and he sounded great, very excited about all the things coming up in his life. He said that a new Martian Chronicles will be coming out soon and will have 1,000 pages containing stories that no one (except, perhaps, for Donn Albright) have seen.

When I asked him what he was going to be doing tonight he said that he would be going out for dinner with friends.

When I asked him what he thought about it going to be 2008 he said that he had so many things happening and I could tell that he was quite excited and I am very happy for him. May his health continue to do well.

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31 December 2007, 05:24 PM
Braling II
Thanks for the report, biplane. And a happy New Year to you, my Floridian friend.
01 January 2008, 05:00 PM
biplane1
Braling II, thank you for your thoughts. In regard to the 1,000 page The Martian Chronicles, I checked in with Donn Albright who said that that book has been in the works for a while as a limited edition to be put out by a smaller publishing house, and due to some diffilcuties may not be ready for a while yet.

Today I was browsing at a Barnes & Nobles and found three new releases of Ray's The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Illustrated Man all with either an introduction or afterword by Ray. I spent a few moments reading them and realized that they were something I never read before. I think that it would be a neat idea to have a collection of such of his introductions and afterwords.

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03 January 2008, 08:44 AM
Braling II
Wild Gravity, I meant to say welcome back! Seems it's been awhile.
And I wish I was working!
03 January 2008, 01:46 PM
philnic
quote:
Originally posted by biplane1:
I think that it would be a neat idea to have a collection of such of his introductions and afterwords.


Many of them have already been collected in ZEN AND THE ART OF WRITING (and BRADBURY SPEAKS).


- Phil

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04 January 2008, 06:29 AM
biplane1
Thanks Phil. I have that publication and signed by Ray. As these are relatively new introductions and afterwards, perhaps a "new" collection might be formed. I realize that it would take quite a few to make up a decent book.