For good or ill, I've created a Patreon page, The Fantasy World Project. Between that, this blog, my website, and my stories and novels, I've got to start producing copy!
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The 20th of August was Ray Bradbury's 100th Birthday, so I have to write something Bradburian!
I almost missed my only opportunity to see Ray in person when he gave a talk at the main public library in Tulsa, OK, about 1996. I was watching a goofy cartoon version of "Tales from the Crypt" ("Tales from the Crypt-Keeper"), and I wanted to see how the running feud between Crypty, the Vault-Keeper, and the Old Witch turned out. Sad, isn't it? But I finally zipped up to the library, where Ray greeted his audience with, "YOU PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS!", which was not quite how I thought he'd start out. He talked about life during and after the flu epidemic, and how high child mortality rates were, and how families had multiple children to make sure there would be a new generation. Finally, however, he started on the more familiar Mr. Electrico and the like.
Anyway, he signed my copy of WONDER Magazine #8, the all-Bradbury issue.
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