06 October 2006, 09:34 AM
patraskWho inspired Ray?
Get a copy of "Fancies and Goodnights" by John Collier, intro by Bradbury. That will answer a lot of your questions.
06 October 2006, 12:26 PM
Braling IIpatrask, I enjoyed that book very much, but the copy I got from the library had no introduction. Would you be willing to summarize?
06 October 2006, 09:16 PM
WalloonRB has said that the interstitial chapters in Steinback's
The Grapes of Wrath (the short vignettes that don't involve the main characters) inspired similar interstitial chapters between the main chapters in
The Martian Chronicles.
07 October 2006, 12:14 AM
dandelionOh, wow, thanks. So I didn't just imagine it because I see Bradbury everyplace.
09 October 2006, 08:54 AM
Mr. DarkHemingway's novel, "In Our Time" had this same kind of inter-chapters. RB has frequently mentioned Hemingway as one of his favorite authors.
03 February 2012, 01:28 AM
philnicquote:
Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
If I could say one author in particular, I'd say Edgar Rice Burroughs, because Burroughs got to him while he was still in his formative stage, as a child. Bradbury has said that at that age he would write sequels to Burroughs' Martian stories, so I would cite that important inspiration perhaps more than others...
EBR is soon to be available in
stamp form. (They went with Tarzan rather than John Carter, I see. If the forthcoming movie is a hit, they may regret that decision.)
03 February 2012, 06:47 AM
LinnlIf you are an ERB fan or scholar, you will probably enjoy actor David Stifel's podcasts of public domain Burroughs classics:
http://marsbooks.libsyn.com/