Felicitations

[tealin]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR PRATCHETT!


It almost makes me wish I believed in astrology so that I could think we had something in common.

Comments

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Cool, cool trivia! Brilliant! I have to check that out when I next see SWTWC again. (It was a great movie, and I am a big Ray Bradbury fan- he grew up in Illinois and often writes about Illinois and Missouri farm and small town life- and he is great at it. My two favorite stories of his are "Frost and Fire" and "Uncle Einar" (short stories)

Cannot say much about my birthday. In Robert Heinlein's novel "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" it falls on Santa Carolita day which, in the far future is supposed to be this galaxy wide day of festivities and orgies. It was named after the main character's daughter. Definately not my style, but Mr. Heinlein was poking fun at society and showing how, over the centuries, an ordinary person's birthday can turn into a big event that has nothing to do with the original person.

Otherwise, I think some incident in the Spanish American war also happened on my birthday, but I cannot remember what it was, now. I have to research it again.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Hey, if people insisted in having festivals and orgies throughout the galaxy on MY birthday, I could live with that. (as long as there was no destruction of property or anything like that)
I haven't read "Frost and Fire" and I'm having trouble remebering what happens in "Uncle Einar" - shameful! How can I consider myself a true Bradbury fan? But I have met him a few times (one of the advantages of living in So-Cal) and acted like a babbling cretin ('I worship you! You are my idol!", etc.) and he still signed my books. He is losing his hearing and mostly confined to a whelchair but still very funny, feisty, and cool.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Wow! You have met the great Ray Bradbury. ** Goes on knees in admiration** I never got that chance- he was long gone to Southern California before I was old enough to read his books.

The Uncle Einar story (and I maybe have the wrong title?) is the one about the winged man living an ordinary life in 1940s rural Illinois and hating that he can no longer fly due to an accident that stranded him in Illinois. Frost and Fire is about a planet so close to the sun with time going faster than ours that a human lifecycle is reduced to just weeks.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Ah! I remember "Einar" now! He gets married and has kids, right? (do they fly?) I can't remeber if he ever made it home (I'll just have to read it again!) Dang - "Frost and Fire" sounds scary!
You should come out to Comic-Con if you want to meet The Man!

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Yes, you are correct!

Nope, his kids don't have wings and he never flies again, but he discovers a wonderful way to fly and while teaching the kids how to fly a kite.

Frost and Fire is more sad than scary. The great idea of the story is that a few young people decide not to accept their destination and try to figure a way to get people off the planet and its deadly gravity- sped up lifecycle. What they do is pretty original.

Wow- I did not realize he would be at Comic Con. I should look into it. Thanks for the tip.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah - now I remember about the kite! Heh - I must have read that back in high school! Or was it junior high?
Bradbury comes every year (as he also does to the LA Festival of Books) and probably will continue to do so as long as he can do anything at all. Last year they had a great panel wiht him, Forrie J. Ackerman, and Ray Harryhausen chatting away and reminiscing.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

No that would be a nice memory to have, just to hear those three great ones chew the fat together. They have created a legacy that has impacted so much of today's perceptions of science fiction, fantasy and movie special effects.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Yes. Amen!