By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Fog Horn’ is a 1951 short story by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), republished in 1953 as the opening story in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. The story, which is about a lighthouse whose foghorn emits a noise which attracts the attention […]
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A Summary and Analysis of William Gibson’s ‘Johnny Mnemonic’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Johnny Mnemonic’ is a 1981 short story by the Canadian-American author and cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson. Although many people, when they hear the name ‘Johnny Mnemonic’, will probably think of the 1995 film starring Keanu Reeves, Gibson’s story is somewhat different from the film […]
A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Pedestrian’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Pedestrian’ is a 1951 short story by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), which is included in his 1953 collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. In some ways a precursor to Bradbury’s more famous novel Fahrenheit 451, ‘The Pedestrian’ is set in a future world […]
A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is, like many stories Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) wrote in the early 1950s, haunted by the fear of nuclear war. Sometimes known by the slightly longer title, ‘August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains’, the story appeared in Bradbury’s 1951 […]
A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Perhaps the greatest literary rendition of ‘rock, paper, scissors’ ever written, ‘The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind’ is a 1953 short story by the American writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). The story tells of two cities ruled by Mandarins or emperors, who continually seek to […]