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dustydigger
Posted 2015-01-22 7:15 AM (#9346 - in reply to #9162)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: UK		` Couldnt resist joining you,though I already have over 50 SF books on my TBR for this year. Had a slight problem choosing a book for 1950,since 9/13 are not available from my library.I had reread I Robot about 18months ago,and Farmer in the Sky and Pebble in the Sky only a few months ago,so by default it had to be Martian Chronicles.The book blew me away as a teenager. I found the writing intoxicating,and the irony,in all shades very telling. I was about 15,we had sweated through the Cuba Crisis( I vividly remember lying in bed rigid with fear,sure we were all going up in smoke). So Bradbury,though he had written the book in the 40s and up to 1950, was of major interest. Also the racial aspect was coming to the fore for my generation,and Bradbury touched on that too. I am looking forward to seeing just how accurate my impressions of past readings are( I read it again in the 90s.)

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