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...would your name happen to be Clay Evans?


Kukai-Aoki's real name is Lt Columbo Big Grin


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...is Lt Columbo Big Grin


Roll Eyes How ever could you tell? I hid it so very well.


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The brown raincoat gave it away.


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I always thought this one suited me better.


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Well, it sure beats this one!


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...once at a post-talk party in Boulder, Colo...

I was there!


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My favorite story of Ray will always be "The miracles of Jamie". It is one of his quite early, dark stories (1946) and it gives a deep insight into the thoughts of a teenage boy. I myself had similar ideas and thoughts like Jamie when I was younger and I also got disappointed.

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Hello, whoever! Your spelling is perfect; you must visit more often! Smiler

"The Miracles of Jamie" is one of RB's most sentimental stories - it's amazing that it took him 30 years to collect it in one of his books!

The man has just too much material.
 
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Yes, it is really astonishing that it took him so long to collect this story. Especially as "The Miracles of Jamie" and "One timeless Spring" (also one of my favorites) were both sold to slick magazines in 1946...


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A Sound of Thunder is an amazing story. Like you were saying his attention to detail makes you picture a t-rex in a way you have never done before as something that truly existed and not in the context of an ancient being that we sometimes almost lump into a mythical category. He makes it real for us, and with that frightening and exciting too.

I am a new comer to many of Bradbury's stories, but one of my favorites that I have read so far is "Embroidery." It is an amazing story that left me reaching for more and literally blown away at the end. He can make everything so beautiful, even death and destruction. I didn't see the end coming.

The Fog Horn is another great story that I have read of his.
 
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I think my favourite short story has to be 'The Fruit in the Bottom of the Bowl', maybe because it was the very first RB story I read about 35 years ago. I seems E.A. Poe-ish to me (I love Poe, too). The second story I read was "A Sound of Thunder" and enjoyed that one, as well. So difficult to choose (sigh).
 
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I am a new comer to many of Bradbury's stories, but one of my favorites that I have read so far is "Embroidery." It is an amazing story that left me reaching for more and literally blown away at the end. He can make everything so beautiful, even death and destruction. I didn't see the end coming.

The Fog Horn is another great story that I have read of his.


I agree. Both these stories are excelelnt. I just recently re-read them. You really feel for the 'monster' in 'Fog Horn'.

I think 'The Murderer' is also a great story (the title is misleading) and it also applies to today (think cell phones and e-mail). Funny!
 
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I enjoyed Frost and Fire the most out of his anthology of stories. It's so different from his other works too, and maybe that's what made me fall in love with it. It's winding together the aspect of human emotion that we see so often with his works with a science fiction based adult-hood.
 
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Choosing a favorite story is like choosing a favorite child. Each child is a favorite when you are with them individually, just as each story touches my heart independently, impressing, inspiring, and often comforting, but always expressing my own feelings in beautifully manipulated prose.
 
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I am one of those who absolutely embraces a wonderful song, tune, story, person. Yet most titles given run away from my memory. Yet, odd details can stick. I came across here trying to find a name for the short I wanted to find. It entailed a couple who escaped to another time. On the run. They got caught by the simple detail the husband had sat down without tugging up his pantleg. Still have not found the title, but overjoyed in realizing there is a plave dedicated to an author that reminds me....Back in the day, he was considered so out there, where I live now, nobody has heard of him. ...how ironic
 
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