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John Byrne
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Easily one of Ray Bradbury’s most famous stories, adapted into comic form by Wally Wood in the Fifties, and included in an Artist’s Edition I picked up recently. Hadn’t read the story in decades, which might be why I didn’t remember it ends on August 5, 2026. Nice knowing you!
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Dave Kopperman
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Yeah, I noted that with some alarm a few weeks back. Revised edition has moved the dates thirty years back or so, but Bradbury’s original (and the EC version) keeps the original 2026.
For additional fun flavor, the company I work for does a big chunk of smart home automation, so this story and ‘The Veldt’ have never been too far from my mind.
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Vinny Valenti
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I will say that the title alone sounds intriguing.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 02 June 2026 at 1:26am | IP Logged | 4
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You may be surprised….
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For whatever reasons, it feels like Bradbury has been omitted (during my lifetime, at least) from the list of great sci-fi writers. He wasn't in the 50's-80's era 'Big Three' of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein, and was largely left behind when the 60's new wave arrived. And while he won the inaugural Hugo for Fahrenheit 451, he never won again, nor any Nebula. But his short speculative fiction remains wildly imaginative and his skill as a prose stylist is at the very top of the field, and - most importantly, to me - his stories always had something to say.
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Brian ONeill
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One of Bradbury's masterpieces
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Brian Miller
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Just read it. Did NOT like the part with the dog.
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John Byrne
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So very human! Shadows of vaporized humans we take in stride. But a dog suffers……
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Read a lot of Bradbury as a teenager, we had his books in
the school library. One phrase that sticks in my
mind..."Peek-a-boo" said Mink. The Veldt and The Fog Horn
struck a chord with me.
Regarding dogs, i only recently plucked up the courage to
watch John Wick because i read about the bad guys killing
his puppy at the start!
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I just watched a low-budget disaster (killer asteroid) movie 'Last Night On Earth', in which the movie's vilain killed the only dog in the movie, about half an hour before the end(of movie and world)
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So much of what makes Bradbury work is how infused with his midwestern childhood at the very start of the sci-fi era all his stuff is. It's an iconic origin story.
The tension in The Martian Chronicles between the Meredith Willson-style Americana and the sere and dying Martian civilization is a perfectly-walked tightrope.
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