One of my favourite sf authors as a kid had to be
Ray Bradbury. Others included
John Wyndham and
Robert Heinlein but they've already passed on. I reread "
A Sound of Thunder" every few years. It's such a great story! Too bad the movie version sucked. I loved all his short stories collections and I just heard that some of them have been adapted into
Manga. I'll have to track them down. He had a way of dragging me back to my childhood and the last book of his that I read was
Farewell Summer, a sequel to "
Dandelion Wine" 50 years later. Now that I'm reaching a more mature age, I found some of those stories a tad depressing. When I read of his passing, I immediately thought of his friend of several decades,
Ray Harryhausen.
I can't express my thoughts much more succinctly so I'll let him
speak for himself and let
Neil Gaiman express his.
I dug up a few photos of his works and I'll end with a video tribute by my
FB pals,
Debs & Errol.
I imagine that these are
Golden Apples of the Sun and
The Martian Chronicles and a
Doreamon manga from 69!.
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