*" Home to Stay " ( issue 13 )-Ray Bradbury's " The Rocket Man " and " Kaleidoscope "

He distributed the EP under the name The Rocket Summer, at the suggestion of a friend, to local stores to be sold on consignment ; the name was inspired by Ray Bradbury's short story collection The Martian Chronicles, which his friend was reading at the time.

The CD was inspired by research into carnivals of that time period and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.

One of the events in Ray Bradbury's childhood that inspired him to become a writer was an encounter with a carnival magician named Mr. Electrico who commanded him to " Live forever!

Ray Bradbury's 1969 short story " Downwind from Gettysburg " was inspired by Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

" Bradbury's work inspired to Van Draanen to write How I Survived Being a Girl, which was published by HarperCollins in 1997.

Indeed, more than 200 books now have similar titles, including Robert Pirsig's 1974 widely popular book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing, as well as " Zen and the Art of Poker ,", " Zen and the Art of Knitting ", and Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating, and so on.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

Another possible interpretation is that the Toynbee reference comes from the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's short story " The Toynbee Convector ", which alludes to Toynbee's idea that in order to survive, humankind must always rush to meet the future, i. e., believe in a better world, and must always aim far beyond what is practically possible, in order to reach something barely within reach.

* Faber ( Fahrenheit 451 ), character in Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, who creates a listening device

Alternatively, this line could be a reference to Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder, the original science fiction story that involved changes in a timeline caused by stepping on an insect, which influenced the Simpsons episode.

As opposed to most of Bradbury's work, the story is not science fiction or fantasy but rather a vignette about a Mexican immigrant named Mr. Ramirez who is forced to leave the United States after he overstays his visa.

He is also known for his science fiction book covers, notably for the Corgi SF Collector's Library edition of Ray Bradbury's The Silver Locusts aka The Martian Chronicles.

In Bradbury's works of fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes " Green Town ," Illinois.

They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction.

They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction.

They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction.

They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction.

They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction.

They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction.

They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction.

In an episode of the Twilight Zone, " In Praise of Pip ", a bookie tries to tell his dying son how much he loves him while chasing him inside a house of mirrors ; the 1984 movie Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzenegger contains a house of mirrors fight, and the 1983 Walt Disney movie Something Wicked This Way Comes ( an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel of the same title ) culminates in a house of mirrors confrontation.

He did a brilliant turn with his old friend and trouping partner Sid Caesar as nervous Jewish tailors in the 1998 movie of Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

King mentions the novel in his The Dead Zone as an acknowledgment of Bradbury's contribution to his genre, and even echoes the beginning scene of Something Wicked by referring to a lightning-rod salesman in a chapter titled " Dark Carnival " after another Bradbury work.

Her credits to date include guest roles in television series Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, Mad Men and Judging Amy, several theatre productions, including Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, as well as a number of minor film roles.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1954 ) presents a book-burning society in which wall television and hearing-aid radios enslave men's minds ; ;

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Bradbury's first paid piece, " Pendulum ," written with Henry Hasse, was published in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in November 1941, for which he earned $ 15.

As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.

This notion, akin to Bradbury's " The Pedestrian ", is also alluded to in " Number 12 Looks Just Like You ", in which a perfect and equal world contradictorily considers works like those of Shakespeare " smut ".

The number also has significance in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, as it is the temperature at which the paper in books ignites.

* The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, which is preparing a critical edition of Bradbury's short stories.

" He did however enjoy UK comics, including newspaper strips such as " Syd Jordan's Jeff Hawke David Wright's Carol Day, " and Valiant which featured " Eric Bradbury's Mytek the Mighty and Jesus Blasco's Steel Claw " Despite such a variety of inspirations, Bolland credits his eventual pursuance of art as a hobby and then vocation to a primary school art teacher, who " evidently said all the right things to me.

He also wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Gravy Train, the sequel The Gravy Train Goes East ( which explored life in Bradbury's fictional Slaka ), and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, Alison Lurie's Imaginary Friends and Kingsley Amis's The Green Man.

At the 2006 Discworld Convention, Cohen and Stewart explained that they originally drafted a very different outline for Science of Discworld III, in which the wizards visited various different fictional versions of Mars ( Ray Bradbury's Mars, H. G.

This led to the end of Ray Bradbury's rather brief association with the show, which resulted in just one of his stories (" I Sing the Body Electric ") being used.

Unlike many of Bradbury's other works, including the tangentially related Dandelion Wine, which is a collection of loosely related short stories, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a full-length novel.

He filmed Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes ( 1983 ), the Disney studio production, which fitted more closely with the ideas he had explored earlier, especially in the sense of the exposure of children to evil.

The opening stanza also appears in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, as Fire Captain Beatty chastizes Guy Montag, the protagonist, about reading books, which are forbidden in the society of the novel.

Some critics gave the work high praise: Publishers Weekly said it was a " lighthearted, beguiling autobiographical novel ", concluding, " Bradbury's prose is as vibrant and distinctive as the landscape in which these delightful tales are set.

Because the story for Harryhausen's film featured a similar scene, the film studio bought the rights to Bradbury's story to avoid any potential legal problems.