New BRADBURY 100 Podcast Episode: Chronological Bradbury, 1940

Can you believe it? My Bradbury 100 podcast has reached its fiftieth episode! And it's another in my "Chronological Bradbury" strand - this time covering the year 1940.

Ray published nine stories in 1940, nearly all of them in fanzines (and one of them in a semi-prozine). Here's a list, with links to online versions of the stories, where they exist.

• "The Fight of the Good Ship Clarissa"
• "The Maiden of Jirbu"
• "The Tale of the Tortletwitch"
• "Luana the Living"
• "The Piper"
• "The Last Man"
• "The Tale of the Terrible Typer"
• "It's Not The Heat, It's The Hu-!"
• "Genie Trouble"

In the podcast, I say more about where you can find these stories. So without further ado, here it is:

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 50 - Chronological Bradbury: 1940

 

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Guesting on Podcasts

As well as producing my own podcasts (Bradbury 100 and Science Fiction 101), I've guested on quite a few pods and radio shows over the years. But it occurred to me that I don't have one place where all those appearances are gathered together.

Until now.

So here's all the audio shows which have been kind enough to invite me on, listed in sort-of chronological order. I do hope I haven't missed any...

If you have a podcast or radio show which would benefit from my dulcet tones discussing Ray Bradbury, science fiction, screenwriting, film, TV, radio drama, or related topics, please get in touch!

Take Me To Your Reader

August 2015 - "A Sound of Thunder" (Bradbury)
August 2016 - Fahrenheit 451 (1966 movie; Bradbury)
May 2018 - Fahrenheit 451 (HBO movie; Bradbury)
October 2018 - The Halloween Tree (Bradbury)
September 2019 - The Illustrated Man (Bradbury)
January 2022 - Rendezvous With Rama (Arthur C. Clarke)
October 2022 - Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury)
August 2023 - "The Crystal Egg" (H.G.Wells)

 

The Ray Harryhausen Podcast

May 2016 - Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen

 

Radio Free Acton

May 2018 - Fahrenheit 451 (book and HBO film)

 

Imaginary Worlds

June 2018 - Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury - episode also features Neil Gaiman)

  

BBC World Service: The Forum 

August 2020 - Ray Bradbury

Hugos There

January 2022 - The Fountains of Paradise (Arthur C. Clarke) 

 

Words to Write By

March 2022 - Zen in the Art of Writing (Bradbury) 

 

Continuum Drag

April 2022 - The Martian Chronicles  (TV miniseries; Bradbury)

New BRADBURY 100 Podcast Episode: Reviewing Ray Bradbury

This time on Bradbury 100 I talk about The New Ray Bradbury Review, the online journal I edit on behalf of the Ray Bradbury Center.

But I lead into the discussion by examining the ancestry of the journal - which stretches way back to 1952, and William F. Nolan's original fan publication, called simply Ray Bradbury Review.

I also pay tribute to Nolan as the first person to really study Ray's work, and I discuss his ongoing engagement with Ray as both a friend and a colleague.

You can download a free PDF copy of Nolan's ground-breaking original Ray Bradbury Review here, courtesy of FANAC: https://fanac.org/fanzines/1950s_One_Shots/ray_bradbury_review_nolan_1952.pdf

And you can find the modern equivalent - The New Ray Bradbury Review - online for free, here: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/nrbr

The other William F. Nolan books I discuss in the podcast are The Ray Bradbury Companion and Nolan On Bradbury. 

Here's the episode. Enjoy!

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 49 - Reviewing Ray Bradbury

 

 

 

 

Please subscribe to the Bradbury 100 podcast - it's totally free on all platforms. Where to find it:

 

 

Main platforms:

 
Apple Podcasts  - Google Podcasts - Soundcloud - Spotify

 

 

 

Other platforms: 

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New BRADBURY 100 Podcast Episode: Chronological Bradbury, 1939

Here's a new episode of my Bradbury 100 podcast - and it's another in my occasional series, "Chronological Bradbury". Last time I covered 1938, so this time it's onward to 1939.

1939 finds Ray Bradbury writing under a variety of names:

• ...as Ron Reynolds: "Don't Get Technatal" - in Futuria Fantasia issue 1
• ...anonymously: "The Pendulum" - in Futuria Fantasia issue 2
• ...as Brian Eldred: "To Run a Successul Ghost Agency" - in D'Journal issue 2
• ...as Cecil Claiborne Cunningham: "Mummy Dust" - in D'Journal issue 3
• ...and as Ray Bradbury: "Gold" - in Science Fiction Fan

 

Here's the episode. Let me know what you think about these early stories!

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 48 - Chronological Bradbury: 1939

 

 

Please subscribe to the Bradbury 100 podcast - it's totally free on all platforms. Where to find it:

 

 

Main platforms:

 
Apple Podcasts  - Google Podcasts - Soundcloud - Spotify

 

 

 

Other platforms: 

Amazon Music - Audible - Bullhorn - Castbox - Deezer - Listen Notes - Player FM - Pocket Casts - Podbean - Podcast Addict - Podcast Index - Podcast Republic - Podchaser - Podfriend - Podlink - TuneIn