Who recommends it
- The Best Science Fiction Books of All TimeReading list
Possibly Bradbury’s best work, which is probably saying enough. A collection of connected stories about our early years on Mars as we thought, during the 40’s and 50’s, they might actually occur. The Martians themselves are missing. The tales are wistful, framed with a sense of loss. My favorite moment depicts a…
- Patrick AllanInterview
Well, it depends on my age. As a young child, it was probably Patrick’s Dinosaurs by Carol Carrick and Donald Carrick. I liked dinosaurs a lot and my name is Patrick, so there you go. When I started reading novels, I was a big fan of Gary Paulsen. I loved the Hatchet series, and I was obsessed with The Transall Saga…
- M.T. AndersonInterview
Probably Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, both because he taught me about writing and, more importantly, he taught me how to have an American childhood. In books like this, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, he simultaneously defined a certain kind of small-town Americana and cleverly ripped…
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