![]() ![]() Some believe it is the basis for Elton John’s song Rocket Man. This feels like it was written earlier than most of Bradbury’s work. And his last trip ends up killing him when he is sucked into the sun. But there are “a million” ways to die in space. He decides, however, that his next trip will be his last. Its like a drug and he can’t break away from it. There aren’t many astronauts so its very lucrative, but that’s not why he does it. Though he misses his family he always goes back for months at a time. He will go for roughly three months at a time, come home to see his family for a few days and then go again. Its his occupation but there is no description of just why or what he does. ![]() Sometime in the future there is a family – mom, dad, teen son – where the father is a “rocket man.” He travels in space. Still, I wanted to go a little deeper in the the short fiction of Bradbury, so I picked up a copy of The Illustrated Man (published in 1951), a collection of 18 short stories. ![]() I’ve posted on a few of the short stories from it. It was published later than a lot of his other more well-known fiction. I’ve discussed some of Bradbury’s longer works but last year my brother gave me a more recent collection of his short stories called Quicker Than The Eye. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Example engagements include Intel, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Fortune Brands, Boston Scientific, the Fortune Growth Summit, The Conference Board: Learning from Legends, the American Society for Training and Development, the Society for Human Resource Management, and Excellence in Government.ĭr. Bradberry is a world-renowned expert in emotional intelligence who speaks regularly in corporate and public settings. Bradberry has written for, or been covered by,Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.ĭr. His best-selling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries. Travis Bradberry is the award-winning co-author of the #1 best-selling book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and the co- founder of TalentSmart-a consultancy that serves more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies and is the world’s leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When an unexpected treasure gives them the chance to have everything “Two sisters are taking stock of their lives amid emotional insecurity Will Averil stay? Will Nina leave? And what about the men who claim to love them? Does love heal, or will finding their happy ending mean giving up all they’ve ever wanted? Her hopes of getting off the island seem to be stretching further away…until her mother makes a discovery that could change everything forever.īut before Nina and Averil can reach for the stars, they have to decide what they want. Averil doesn’t seem to want the great guy she’s married to, and doesn’t seem to be making headway writing her first book their mom is living life just as recklessly as she always has and Nina’s starting to realize that the control she once had is slipping out of her fingers. But as fun as all this romance is, Nina has real life to deal with. Nina unexpectedly finds herself juggling two men-her high school sweetheart and a younger maverick pilot who also wants to claim her heart. Which is why she isn’t exactly thrilled to see Averil back on Blackberry Island, especially when Nina’s life has suddenly become…complicated. More “Mom” than their mother ever was, she sacrificed medical school-and her first love-so her sister could break free. Small-town nurse Nina Wentworth has made a career out of being a caretaker. New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery returns to Blackberry Island with the poignant tale of two sisters on the verge of claiming their dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The others alternate focus among vampires and the fae, with werewolves always being involved, because Mercy is ever involved. Each book in the series deals with a particular element of the nonhuman realm Moon Called centers on werewolves, namely, Mercy's intriguing neighbor and his pack. Mercy's coyote self gives her access to the rest of the hidden realm, those who pass as humans to help preserve their own kind. In Briggs's alternate world, the fae have been "outed" and get treated with suspicion by humans and other non-humans alike. Oh, and she was raised by werewolves, has her trailer just outside an Alpha werewolf's home, and counts a metalsmithing fae and a vampire among her closest friends, both of whom are old and dangerous. 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