![]() ![]() 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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