World Book Day

World Book Day offers us a chance to celebrate the delight reading brings. Over one hundred countries observe World Book Day, highlighting the opportunities that lie within the pages of the books we read to ourselves or share with others.

Whether you read to increase general knowledge, understand other cultures, or escape into new worlds of possibility, books stimulate our minds and open our hearts.

In a time when physical distancing keeps many people apart, reading books strengthens the bonds between different generations and communities: share a book with someone you know to discover what you have in common and share a book with a child to open windows into worlds they have never seen.

Michael Chabon Reads “The Rocket Man”

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon read Bradbury’s “The Rocket Man” on Read By, a new podcast from New York’s 92nd Street Y. The program features exceptional writers reading from works that matter to them. When Chabon first read “The Rocket Man” in his early teens, he “realized stories were made not of ideas or exciting twists of plot but of language. Not words, not turns of phrase, but imagery and patterns of metaphor.”

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Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Book Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction: Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy Book 1), Riverhead

The Los Angeles Times in partnership with the Ray Bradbury Estate announced that Marlon James was the winner of the inaugural Ray Bradbury Book Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction for his book Black Leopard, Red Wolf.

1945 Retro Hugo Awards Nominees Announced

Ray Bradbury’s “I, Rocket”, has been nominated for the 1945 Retrospective Hugo Award for best short story. Bradbury’s “King of the Gray Spaces” (later retitled “R Is for Rocket”) won the same award in 2019. This year’s Hugo Awards, one of the most prestigious awards in the science fiction world, will be presented online at CoNZealand’s virtual convention, July 29–August 2, 2020, on a date to be determined.