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A Little Journey

Ray Bradbury

Book Overview: 

A LITTLE JOURNEY marks Bradbury’s final contribution to the editorial decade of Horace Gold, the editor of GALAXY magazine. Like THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and THE FIREMAN, the story demonstrates Bradbury’s characteristic blending so early in his career of the sentimental and the transcendent, the homely and the mystical. Bradbury’s old women in space and their strange outcome are reminiscent of his more famous story KALEIDOSCOPE (published in THE ILLUSTRATED MAN) and its conclusion shows unusual if understated power.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .She'd paid good money to see the inevitable ...
and then had to work to make it happen!

There were two important things—one, that she was very old; two, that Mr. Thirkell was taking her to God. For hadn't he patted her hand and said: "Mrs. Bellowes, we'll take off into space in my rocket, and go to find Him together."

And that was how it was going to be. Oh, this wasn't like any other group Mrs. Bellowes had ever joined. In her fervor to light a path for her delicate, tottering feet, she had struck matches down dark alleys, and found her way to Hindu mystics who floated their flickering, starry eyelashes over crystal balls. She had walked on the meadow paths with ascetic Indian philosophers imported by daughters-in-spirit of Madame Blavatsky. She had made pilgrimages to California's stucco jungles to hunt the astrological seer in his natural habitat. She had even consented to signing away the rights to one of her homes in order to be tak. . . Read More

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A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury

A real dodgy character called Mr Thirkell offers to take our elderly main character, Mrs Bellowes, to meet God. His outrageous offer, includes a week on Mars in some sort of Spa Resort (which sounded dreadful), followed by a trip on a rocket to the outer reaches of th

It was the gentle, mad dream of old people, the kind of thing you hold onto for a few minutes a day, even though you know it's not true.

(Wassily Kandinsky, Planets and Moons, 1926)

Beware when treading on the dreams of feisty old ladies - their bodies might look like mushrooms or skeletons, or equal

"I'm Mrs. Amelia Bellowes," she said quietly, in her best company voice. "I'm from the planet Earth."

I feel like with this book, you get a taste of what it could have been like had Bradbury written The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

What happens when a bunch of little old ladies spend their l

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