My parents loved all things Sci-Fi, so growing up I loved all things Sci-Fi, not by choice but by exposure. It wasn't until I got my first job that I truly developed a taste for the genre.
I was hired at 16 to be the manager of the book department in a comic book store. The entire book section was in chaos and the manager simply said "fix it." So, I did. I organized everything by genre first and then alphabetically. It took several months to complete and in the process I found a lot of authors that peaked my interest.
One of those authors was Ray Bradbury. I found an entire series of his books published in pulp-fiction style and bought them all for about $2. I set to work reading The Martian Chronicles first, followed by The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes and then Dandelion Wine, Golden Apples of the Sun., and of course, R Is For Rocket.
While it was the Greentown novels that really captured my heart, I devoured all his works of science fiction with only slightly less gusto. Every line is so carefully crafted I was engulfed by each story, carried away in time and space to be a part of the adventure.
My reading time these days is sporadic. But at least every other year, I still dip in to one of Mr. Bradbury's books for an afternoon or so, with each beautiful world, each moment of magical realism perfectly preserved.
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