Conference noted::sf

"Bradbury 13" will be broadcast on WBUR, Boston, 90.9 FM, on Sundays at 7:00pm, 
starting 22 April.  "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back" will play 
Saturdays at 7:00pm, starting 28 April, with two episodes per evening.

Be listening.

					-- Roger

One of my least favorite authors.  I often wonder how his anti-intelectual/
anit-technology diatabes can be accepted as 'science fiction'.  He belongs 
more properly in the suspense/fantasy/horror catagory.

I better shut up while I am behind.

Hear hear.  Over-rated as an SF author.  Popular with the mundanes
probably BECAUSE of his anti-intellectual, etc, diatribes.  I listened
to part of one of the stories last week - the fake technical mumbo-jumbo
was irritating.

He had a couple of really well done SF stories.  My favorite was "Fire and Ice"
(I think that's right), about decendents of shipwrecked travellers on a really
bizarre planet who live 8 days.  It wasn't the best _science_, but it was
definately SF, and very well done.  There are a number of others, although
it's true that a great deal of his work isn't even close to SF.  I don't
really think you can fairly say that much was "anti-intellectual" though.

	/dave

In case you like him anyway, here is the schedule for the rest of May.
This is when WEVO in Concord, NH is airing them, but any other station
carrying the series now will have these episodes on approx. the same
week as WEVO, due to the method of distribution (by satellite during
the week, taped for later broadcast).

12 May	"There was an old woman"
19 May	"Kaleidoscope"
26 May	"Dark they were, and Golden-eyed"

    Though Bradbury wrote a lot of sci-fi, some of his stories were simply
    just bizarre.  They were very similar to the stories that were being
    shown on the TV series "The Twilight Zone".  They were not just sci-fi
    but stories that were simply bizarre with strange twists and turns with
    sci-fi backdrops.
    
    					king

Article: 861
From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: clari.news.books
Subject: Ray Bradbury tries to save library
Date: 9 Mar 92 14:33:07 GMT
 
	WAUKEGAN, Ill. (UPI) -- In Ray Bradbury's ``Something Wicked
This Way Comes,'' the hero takes refuge in a small-town library where
he finds the strength to defeat evil forces that have invaded his town. 

	Now author Ray Bradbury is trying to save the 90-year-old building
that served as the model for the fictional library in his book.

	Bradbury, 71, who spent his first 13 years in Waukegan, has lent his
name to efforts to save the city's Carnegie Library.

	Bradbury has agreed to meet March 31 with the Carnegie Library
Preservation Committee and offered to donate his personal collection of
thousands of books to the library group if it wants them.

	``I had promised the collection to the Library of Congress, but these
are my friends in Waukegan and I'd rather they have it,'' the science-
fiction writer said recently.

	``Waukegan pervades all of my work and the library especially,''
Bradbury said. ``I remember there used to be green lamps on all the
tables. It was very cozy; you could cuddle up with a book and that's
what a library should be.''

	The library was built in 1902 with funds donated by steel magnate
Andrew Carnegie. A new library was built in 1965 and the old building
housed the USO until 1981. It has been vacant and unheated since then.

	Preservationists began a fight to save the building in January when
the Waukegan City Council approved a motion to advertise for bids to
demolish the structure.

	Ironically, Bradbury will also preview his new book during the
Illinois visit. ``Yestermorrow'' says the old and new can work together
to create the city of the future.

	The effort to preserve the library, which city officials say could
take up to $1 million to restore, is being aided by the Waukegan
Downtown Association. State Sen. Adeline Geo-Karis has pledged $1,000 to
help get fund-raising efforts started.

Article: 687
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.reviews
From: [email protected] (David M. Chess) 
Subject:  Review of Ray Bradbury's "The Toynbee Convector" (Turner edition)
Sender: [email protected] (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 01:56:39 GMT
 
Note : If you're intuitive enough to find the spoiler in here, you
       wouldn't have been surprised by the story anyway.
 
Executive summary : A quirky little 1992 mass-market (I guess) reprint
   of a good 1983 Bradbury short story.  Worth buying for oddity-value
   if you are a Bradbury fan and/or you find it for US$4 in the
   Bargain Books section of your local Barnes & Noble like I did.
 
Packaging and Illustration : The first CNN book I can recall buying; I
   wonder if there's some cable-program tie-in that I've missed, or if
   it's part of a series, or just the personal project of someone at
   Turner who's allowed to play with things.  It's a roughly 6.5"
   by 11.5" glossy-finish hardcover (no dust jacket).  Inside, wide
   margins and a rather large double-spaced font stretch the short
   story out to thiry pages.  The illustrations help pad it out, too.
   I won't say much about the illos, because I've never really liked
   pictures in grownup books (the last books that I remember liking
   the pictures in were Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows).
   I will complain briefly that the illustrator may not have read
   the text that she's illustrating (less forgivable in a shory story
   than a novel): the cover, for instance, shows a person wearing a
   strange machine on his head, whereas the Convector of the story
   is very clearly something that you sit inside of.
 
Story : It's the hundredth anniversary of the first (and only)
   time voyage; one hundred years ago Craig Bennett Stiles "stepped
   into his _Immense Clock_, as he called it", went a century ahead
   into the future, and returned with the joyous news that humanity
   had Made Good, got rid of most pollution, stopped wars, colonized
   Mars, and so on.  Now, after the bright future that he reported
   has become reality, he's about to give his first interview in
   a century.  (The 83% of you who think you know the story's main
   twist are quite correct, but it's worth reading anyway.)  There's
   no science to speak of in the story; as with all good Bradbury,
   it's about people and the nature of life.
 
Storytelling : Ah, Bradbury!  This is the author in his positive mode,
   the bursting paranoid-optimist wonder-filled narrative of Dandelion
   Wine and the lighter parts of the Martian Chronicles: everything is
   charged with meaning, we are an eager fourteen-year-old boy rushing
   through golden-dusty streets looking for the marvels around the next
   corner.  (No, there are no actual 14-year-old boys in the story;
   I'm just being metaphorical.)  This is the Bradbury that I'm very
   fond of, in moderate doses, and this book (this story) is a very
   well-measured small dose, a drop glistening at the end of the
   spoon, and just the sort of thing to leave sitting around on an
   end-shelf for accidental reading on rainy days.  I'll have to
   figure out which box the rest of the Bradbury is in, and move it
   closer to the top of "to be unpacked soon"...
 
%A Bradbury, Ray
%T The Toynbee Convector
%I Turner Publishing, Inc.
%C Atlanta GA
%D 1992
%G ISBN 1-878685-15-5
%P 30pp
%O odd thin hardcover, US$10.95
%O Illustrated by Anita Kunz
 
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