tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post6191789500977488329..comments2024-01-07T09:36:51.796-08:00Comments on Chess, Comics, Crosswords, Books, Music, Cinema: The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury, 1951Prashant C. Trikannadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-53778708608067266532015-05-11T02:07:41.810-07:002015-05-11T02:07:41.810-07:00Todd, thanks again, for the recommendations. I'...Todd, thanks again, for the recommendations. I'll look into both these and other titles by Sturgeon and Brackett.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-55156069232366053042015-05-11T02:06:26.269-07:002015-05-11T02:06:26.269-07:00Todd, thanks for all the information. I have read ...Todd, thanks for all the information. I have read some of the early SATURDAY EVENING POST and ARGOSY issues though in case of the latter I don't recall which edition. Not all ARGOSY issues are in public domain.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-47029569967959607332015-05-11T01:55:49.905-07:002015-05-11T01:55:49.905-07:00Todd, I haven't read a lot of Bradbury but, I ...Todd, I haven't read a lot of Bradbury but, I agree, he has a way with prose and I enjoy reading it.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-30173733112884178882015-05-08T06:20:29.514-07:002015-05-08T06:20:29.514-07:00Yes, he's striving for poetic imagery in much ...Yes, he's striving for poetic imagery in much of his prose...but he's a vastly better writer of prose than he is of poetry. He published a lot of weak poetry over his later decades.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-75452550925344684842015-05-08T00:24:14.652-07:002015-05-08T00:24:14.652-07:00If you can find the books, I'd say E PLURIBUS ...If you can find the books, I'd say E PLURIBUS UNICORN by Sturgeon, and THE BEST OF LEIGH BRACKETT collection, edited by her husband Edmond Hamilton (she edited his best of volume, too). I'll see what I would recommend online. Certainly the early story "It" in the magazine UNKNOWN on Utz, for Sturgeon.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-38069602711638067292015-05-08T00:18:21.983-07:002015-05-08T00:18:21.983-07:00THE SATUrDAY EVENING POST *was* the most "mai...THE SATUrDAY EVENING POST *was* the most "mainstream" magazine in the US for the first half of the 20th Century, Prashant...it lost much of its advertising base (and faced high production costs) by the end of the 1960s, but likes of TIME and THE ECONOMIST were minor titles in sales in comparison for the first half of the 1900s. The US ARGOSY sold very well indeed in those years, and I believe that the UK ARGOSY wasn't quite as familiar to anyone you'd meet in Britain, but was a common sight and widely read through the 1960s as well, and folded not long after. You didn't see them as a young adult because ARGOSY UK wasn't being published (there were two shortlived US revivals after he US version folded circa 1980), and the revived SEP has beem mostly a nostalgia magazine, with a small fraction of the old SEP's readership.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-61217451229246296032015-05-03T21:20:22.475-07:002015-05-03T21:20:22.475-07:00Todd, I still have to read both Sturgeon and Brack...Todd, I still have to read both Sturgeon and Brackett. Where do you think I should start?Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-46715236616975814822015-05-03T21:19:17.677-07:002015-05-03T21:19:17.677-07:00Todd, I'd never seen or heard of these fiction...Todd, I'd never seen or heard of these fiction magazines in Bombay in the eighties and nineties. It is possible that discerning readers may have been ordering the magazines directly. Even today I find only mainstream magazines and periodicals like National Geographic, Time and The Economist, and the usual celebrity-fashion-housekeeping journals in both new and secondhand bookshops. UNZ is a good site for a lay reader like me.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-7080406749482919072015-05-03T21:12:14.090-07:002015-05-03T21:12:14.090-07:00Todd, I'd like to think of it as prose-poetry....Todd, I'd like to think of it as prose-poetry.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-42129027186676927962015-05-02T17:40:03.265-07:002015-05-02T17:40:03.265-07:00And Unz wasn't saying it was first published i...And Unz wasn't saying it was first published in ARGOSY, just that he was posting the ARGOSY (UK) issue it was in.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-3783667265347790972015-05-02T17:38:30.530-07:002015-05-02T17:38:30.530-07:00Oddly, perhaps, Bradbury is a terrible poet.Oddly, perhaps, Bradbury is a terrible poet.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-48911376181371722742015-05-02T17:37:42.601-07:002015-05-02T17:37:42.601-07:00His major influences in sf and fantasy were Theodo...His major influences in sf and fantasy were Theodore Sturgeon and Leigh Brackett, no slouches with prose themselves.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-3213755026454072592015-05-02T17:36:04.776-07:002015-05-02T17:36:04.776-07:00That kind of transAtlantic republication particula...That kind of transAtlantic republication particularly common in those years...most magazines didn't get too much international distribution until, at least, the 1970s, at least not between North America, Europe and the antipodes, despite even more obvious interest than there might've been in the SubContinent and other Anglophone audiences. Most of the fiction magazines had foreign editions in the 50s and 60s, for example, rather than simply ship copies internationally, as they would more often in the 1970s and 80s, at least.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-14276839618610534472015-05-02T03:16:02.163-07:002015-05-02T03:16:02.163-07:00Richard, it is, indeed, "beautifully written....Richard, it is, indeed, "beautifully written." I will be seeking out Bradbury's other stories.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-91670468504950659052015-05-02T03:14:34.716-07:002015-05-02T03:14:34.716-07:00Todd, thanks for setting the publishing date and y...Todd, thanks for setting the publishing date and year straight. I knew it was first published in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST but was surprised to find the story also featured in a 1951 issue of ARGOSY.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-91594660195681552922015-05-02T03:11:22.056-07:002015-05-02T03:11:22.056-07:00Ben, I have been wanting to read Ray Bradbury cons...Ben, I have been wanting to read Ray Bradbury consistently over a period of time but that hasn't been happening.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-80936104719496876652015-05-02T03:09:45.341-07:002015-05-02T03:09:45.341-07:00David, given your interest in poetry you'll lo...David, given your interest in poetry you'll love this story and I'd like to know your thoughts on it.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-91635787099177631682015-05-02T03:01:16.301-07:002015-05-02T03:01:16.301-07:00Col, this is far from what you read but you might ...Col, this is far from what you read but you might still like it if you give it a try. I don't think I have read any of his mysteries.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-12110441198180745622015-05-02T02:52:04.529-07:002015-05-02T02:52:04.529-07:00Sergio, thank you! I started reading Bradbury seri...Sergio, thank you! I started reading Bradbury seriously only in the last one decade and I still have a long way to go. I have read a few of his short stories though I haven't done justice to his novels.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-48246139328918522015-05-02T02:46:42.266-07:002015-05-02T02:46:42.266-07:00Neer, I don't remember any of the episodes of ...Neer, I don't remember any of the episodes of STAR TREK though I enjoyed the William Shatner-Leonard Nimoy series a lot.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-17793317494677188172015-05-02T02:36:04.135-07:002015-05-02T02:36:04.135-07:00Neer, it's only nine pages long and there is s...Neer, it's only nine pages long and there is so much depth to it.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-43126433110519676122015-05-02T02:27:20.540-07:002015-05-02T02:27:20.540-07:00Moira, I hope you read this story out of the box. ...Moira, I hope you read this story out of the box. You won't regret it.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-1812208670750062192015-05-02T02:25:39.312-07:002015-05-02T02:25:39.312-07:00Tracy, you will like this story, especially since ...Tracy, you will like this story, especially since you enjoy reading sf.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-4575854768119473382015-05-02T02:24:48.588-07:002015-05-02T02:24:48.588-07:00Charles, I read it for the first time and loved it...Charles, I read it for the first time and loved it.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169151311037688512.post-56265455801522284972015-05-01T10:43:15.572-07:002015-05-01T10:43:15.572-07:00Haunting. I've read this several times and it ...Haunting. I've read this several times and it always make me sad. Beautifully written, as are many of his stories.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.com