Some of the greatest visual memories I have from SF were from Bradbury's words.
The Martian Chronicles got me hooked on SF. That's the second of my two literary icons down (AC Clarke was the other).
I always chuckled over the recent irony of Bradbury's vocal opposition to ebooks; the writer of
Fahrenheit 451, whose heroes dealt with the preservation of books into history by memorizing them, criticizing the digital storage and preservation of texts; but I was always sure it was the romantic in him talking, the side that just loved those bound reams of paper from his lifetime, and not a side that had become blind to the realities of the day.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
That was another one we read in Junior High and did the movie (Rock Hudson) comparison thing on.
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The TV movie had its moments (not very many, though). I'd love to have seen a really good cinematic take on
The Martian Chronicles, done by someone with cinematic vision... it could be glorious.