New Podcast Episode: Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 2)

Time for another podcast episode - another in my "Chronological Bradbury" strand, where I work through Ray Bradbury's stories in the order they were published.

This time, we continue with the year 1944, which sees Ray publishing a string of crime stories alongside the more familiar fantasy and science fiction tales.

As you will recall from last time, there are too many stories from 1944 for me to cover in a single episode, so this is the second of three episodes for 1944.

Here are the stories in this episode, with links to the original magazine appearances where they exist. (Some of this episode's stories are from rare magazines which have never appeared as online scans, so the only way you can read them is to seek them out in books! In the episode, I tell you which books the stories can be found in.)

1. Killer Come Back to Me
2. The Long Night
3. Yesterday I Lived
4. The Trunk Lady
5. Bang! You're Dead!
6. And Then - The Silence

 

As always, you can grab the episode using your podcast app of choice, or find it using any of the platforms listed at the bottom of this page - or play it right here. Enjoy! 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - episode 70 - Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 2)

 

 

 

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New Podcast Episode: Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 1)

Time for another podcast episode - and it's another in my "Chronological Bradbury" strand, where I work through Ray Bradbury's stories in the order they were published.

This time, we reach the year 1944, which sees Ray publishing "The Lake" - which he always said was the first "good" story that he ever wrote. It's also the year of "I, Rocket", the story which nabbed him a posthumous Retro Hugo Award for best short story of 1944.

There are too many stories from 1944 for me to cover in a single episode, so you can expect THREE episodes for the year in total. Here are the stories in this episode, with links to the original magazine appearances of all of them:

1. The Sea Shell
2. Reunion
3. The Monster Maker
4. I, Rocket
5. The Lake
6. Morgue Ship
7. There Was An Old Woman

 

As always, you can grab the episode using your podcast app of choice, or find it using any of the platforms listed at the bottom of this page - or play it right here. Enjoy! 

 

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - episode 69 - Chronological Bradbury 1944 (part 1)

 

 

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New Podcast Episode: Chronological Bradbury 1943 (continued)

Here's another new podcast episode, picking up the "Chronological Bradbury" thread once more, with the remaining Ray Bradbury stories which were first published in the latter part of 1943.

I cover five stories in this episode, completing the total of eleven stories Ray published in that year.

All of the stories are available online within archived copies of the original pulp magazines. Here are the stories and links:

• Doodad (Astounding, September 1943)
• And Watch the Fountains (Astounding, September 1943)
• Promotion to Satellite (Thrilling Wonder Stories, fall 1943)
• The Ducker (Weird Tales, November 1943)
• King of the Gray Spaces (aka R is for Rocket) (Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1943)

In the following year (1944), Ray will publish a total of nineteen stories. That's a lot of stories, but he still won't have reached his peak of busy-ness!

Here's the new pod - or you can find it in your podcast app of choice. As always, there's a list of direct links to the pod on various platforms down below.

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - episode 68 - Chronological Bradbury 1943

 

 

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New Podcast Episode: Chronological Bradbury 1943

Bradbury 100 podcast time! And it's another of my "Chronological Bradbury" series, this time covering the year 1943.

This is the year when Ray broke all his previous records, by having no fewer than eleven stories published in professional magazines - in contrast to the mere two published in 1942.

This is also the year that Ray became 23 years old. It's remarkable to me that a 22-year-old could write a story like "The Wind", "The Crowd" or "The Scythe". All three of these classics were published before his 23rd birthday.

To be fair, not every Bradbury story of 1943 is a timeless classic. Some of them are quite pulpy! But all of them are interesting.

In this episode, I cover roughly half of 1943, and I'll cover the remainder of the year in a future episode. The stories I feature this time are:

• The Piper (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1943)
• The Wind (Weird Tales, March 1943)
• Gabriel's Horn (co-written with Henry Hasse (Captain Future, Spring 1943))
• Subterfuge (Astonishing Stories, April 1943) 
• The Crowd (Weird Tales, May 1943)
• The Scythe (Weird Tales, July 1943)

 

Here's the episode. Enjoy! 

 

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - episode 66 - Chronological Bradbury 1943

 

 

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New BRADBURY 100 Episode - Chronological Bradbury: 1942

Time for another new episode of my Bradbury 100 podcast, and it's another one of the occasional "Chronological Bradbury" series. This time, we hit 1942, the year when Ray broke through to the two leading science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines of the time: Astounding Science Fiction and Weird Tales.

It's actually a fairly quiet year, as Ray only published two stories in 1942. (But he was evidently busy writing, because the following years will be full of professional appearances.)

The two stories I cover today are "Eat, Drink and Be Wary", from July 1942, which you can read in full here...

...and "The Candle", from November 1942, which is available here.

I hope you enjoy the episode!

 

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 55 - Chronological Bradbury 1942

 

 

 

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New BRADBURY 100 Episode - Chronological Bradbury: 1941

Time for another new episode of my Bradbury 100 podcast - and it's another in my occasional series, "Chronological Bradbury".

It's 1941, and the year that Ray Bradbury makes the breakthrough as a professional writer!

In this year, Bradbury had six stories published: three amateur pieces published in fanzines; two semipro pieces (published in a fairly prestigious magazine, but he got paid with free copies of the magazine); and at year's end, his first professional sale, to the pulp science fiction magazine Super Science Stories.

In the podcast episode, I go through each story in turn, giving a brief summary and a review. If you want to read the stories for yourself, you can find some of them online. Some of them are only available in books, though. And one of them is, alas, not available anywhere that I can find.

Here's a list of the stories covered, with direct links where there are online copies:

• “How Am I Today, Doctor?”
• “The Trouble With Humans Is People”
• “Wilber and his Germ” - I haven't been able to find this story anywhere. Let me know if you have a copy!
• “Tale of the Mangledomvritch”
• “To Make A Long Story Much Much Shorter”
• “Pendulum”

 Stories which can't be found online are usually found in The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition, Vol. 1, or in The Earliest Bradbury. 

Here's the episode. Please let me know what you think of these stories!

 

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 52 - Chronological Bradbury 1941

 

 

 

 

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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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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

 

 

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New Bradbury 100 podcast episode: Chronological Bradbury!

With this new episode of my Bradbury 100 podcast, I start a new occasional series: "Chronological Bradbury".

The idea is to work through Ray Bradbury's fiction output in the order of publication, discussing each item as we go.

In this first "Chronological Bradbury", I start right at the beginning, with a discussion of Ray's earliest published works, which appeared in amateur magazines in 1938.

I hope you enjoy the discussion - and do please let me know what you think. You can post a comment down below, or on the Bradbury 100 Podcast Facebook page.

In this episode I mention several useful sources:

• Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Eller & Touponce)
• FANAC's historical fanzine collection
  
• The Earliest Bradbury (Ritter)
   

 

 

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 46 - Chronological Bradbury: 1938

 

 

 

 

 

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