tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post4878169157607030694..comments2024-03-27T19:24:05.285-05:00Comments on Stupefying Stories Magazine: Ray Bradbury Week: The Wrap-up • by Bruce Bethke~brbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845253722980029012noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-29901173588280223812021-04-18T07:19:13.497-05:002021-04-18T07:19:13.497-05:00Every so often someone comes along who invents his...Every so often someone comes along who invents his/her own genre. We don't try to figure out if William Faulkner writes more like Charles Dickens or Henry Fielding, because he writes like William Faulkner. Nobody tries to put William Shakespeare into a box. Why should we spend time trying to characterize Bradbury? He didn't limit himself to any particular genre. Sometimes he wrote science ficiton, sometimes horror, sometimes literary, but his style was always unmistakenly his own.<br />I have always wondered why he dind't do more screenplays. His adaption of Moby Dick is quite good, but he never went down that road again with somebody else's fiction. Not that he didn't have enough to do with his own writing.Pete Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14512590488080103661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-21704902057484714162021-04-17T23:36:54.086-05:002021-04-17T23:36:54.086-05:00I've always maintained that Bradbury was, in f...I've always maintained that Bradbury was, in fact, a straight literary author, albeit with some horror or sf/f trappings. He cared not one whit about the science, and the horror was either a backdrop, or there to make a point. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13851445089877375043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773759989225356372.post-46909602212955768682021-04-17T13:52:10.519-05:002021-04-17T13:52:10.519-05:00Re inspiration vs imitation: please know that the ...Re inspiration vs imitation: please know that the world does <b>not</b> need an updated rewrite of “Marionettes, Inc.”, especially one that makes all the implicit sex and violence explicit. Such stories show up in our slush pile with depressing regularity. The one in which the vengeful wife had her robot duplicate equipped with <i>vagina dentata</i> remains seared—seared!—into my memory. ~brbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10845253722980029012noreply@blogger.com