Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently:
♦ More sad news last week: iconic author Ray Bradbury died June 5th at the age of 91. The interwebs were ablaze with appreciations, essays, obituaries, reflections and tributes, the following being just a sample: Margaret Atwood, The Beat, Gregory Benford, BookRiot, John Crowley, Junot Díaz, Neil Gaiman (also, the introduction he wrote to an edition of Bradbury’s The Machineries of Joy; he also posted a recording of his reading “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury,” a short story), Theodora Goss, io9, LitReactor, Locus, The Los Angeles Times, Will Ludwigsen, Nick Mamatas, Adam Mills, The New York Times (also, the essay “Uncle Ray’s Dystopia“), President Obama, SF Signal (“The Bradbury Effect > The Amazon Effect”), Time, Tor.com (also, a gallery of some of Bradbury’s book covers), Underwords, Jeff VanderMeer, The Washington Post, Chuck Wendig, and Ian Withrow. The New Yorker‘s science-fiction issue included an essay by Bradbury, “Take Me Home,” and io9 shared some letters from Bradbury “that show his passion for writing, but most of all his generosity to his readers.”
Lots of Bradbury quotations popped up, too, like “Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.” And these:
