SOUNDTRACK: hiatus
[READ: December 6, 2021] “The Fire Balloons”
This year, S. ordered me The Short Story Advent Calendar. This is my seventh time reading the Calendar. The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar is a deluxe box set of individually bound short stories.
As always, each story is a surprise, so you won’t know what you’re getting until you crack the seal every morning starting December 1. Once you’ve read that day’s story, check this link where editor Alberto Manguel is providing daily commentary on each of the stories he selected for this year’s calendar.
I haven’t read very much by Ray Bradbury. In the past it was because I kind of dismissed him as a genre writer. But I have read a few things in the last few years that I liked and thought I should give him more of my time.
This story is from The Martian Chronicles, which I have not read. I actually don’t really know much about the Chronicles at all.
This story is set in 2033. Two priests are headed to Mars as missionaries. Father Peregrine and Father Stone spoke about the Martians and the kind of sins they would find among them. Mars was so different, no doubt sin was like a virtue. (more…)
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