Ep. 728, Rocket Summer, by Ray Bradbury
The Classic Tales Podcast
B.J. Harrison
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🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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The world stands poised to enter the rocket age. But is it really the next best step for mankind? Ray Bradbury, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Ray Bradbury wrote today’s story in 1947. It first appeared in the Spring edition of Planet Stories magazine. Bradbury was one of the best-known writers of our time. He was a master storyteller, a champion of creative freedom, and a space-age visionary. His most noteworthy works include The Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
In 2008, a digitized copy of The Martian Chronicles reached the Red Planet in 2008, aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander. Bradbury’s remarks on the subject were:
“The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They’ll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read The Martian Chronicles on Mars.”
And now, Rocket Summer, by Ray Bradbury
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| 0:00.0 | The world stands poised to enter the rocket age. |
| 0:05.0 | But is it really the next best step for mankind? |
| 0:10.0 | Ray Bradbury, today on the Classic Tales Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you to all of our financial supporters. We couldn't do this without you. |
| 0:31.0 | We really try to make your support worth your while. You get so much out of this. |
| 0:37.0 | For a $5 monthly donation, you get a monthly coupon code for $8 off any audiobook download. |
| 0:45.0 | Give more and you get more. It helps us to have something solid to count on every month. |
| 0:51.0 | You can build out your classic audiobook library and you can help to give more folks like you the chance to discover the classics in a curated and easily accessible format. |
| 1:03.0 | Go to classictalesaudiobooks.com today and become a financial supporter. You'll be glad you did. Thank you so much. |
| 1:14.0 | If it's more convenient, we are streaming our episodes through YouTube now. |
| 1:19.0 | A link can be found in the comments section for today's episode. |
| 1:24.0 | We have four new science fiction titles available. The cosmic thriller, The Color Out of Space by HP Lovecraft. |
| 1:33.0 | The psychological thriller, The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers. |
| 1:38.0 | The rival mechanicians, Another Science Fiction Classic by Lydia Maria Childs. |
| 1:44.0 | And The Skull by The Great Philip K. Dick. |
| 1:49.0 | Links to these products can be found in the description for today's episode or by checking out the new category on the website. |
| 1:58.0 | First a quick personal moment. |
| 2:00.0 | Silla and I are always telling our kids horror stories about how advertising was done when we were kids in the 80s. |
| 2:08.0 | 40 years later we can still sing all the jingles to so many of the ads we used to watch on TV. |
| 2:14.0 | I don't know if you did this, but both of our families would record on VHS, the Christmas specials when they would come on, and we would record the ads with them. |
| 2:23.0 | So along with Frosty and Rudolph on the rest, we knew those commercials really, really well. Some of the M&M ones were really cute. |
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