A while back I read some of Ray Bradburyās short stories, I think it was the collection in The Illustrated Man (you can read it for free as a pdf). It made me realize how much this man loved rockets. I think 4/5 stories featured a rocket in some way. (Yes the collection included The Rocket Man, the short story that inspired Elton John.) The real rocket man wasnāt that fictional workaholic father, it was Bradbury himself all along. A true legend.
At around the same time I read Issac Asimovās The Bicentennial Man and Assorted Stories (also available for free online) and wow, if Bradbury loved rockets, Asimov loved robots. Most of his stories existed in some variation of one semi-connected fictional future timeline (based on the one in I, Robot (the book not the movie)) where mankind invented super cool androids and had various problems with said robots.
I feel like the two highly influential sci-fi authors would have gotten along well and talked about their rockets and robots together. And itās incredibly inspiring to have these two guys just write about their favorite Things and become wildly successful and/or very well known in the modern day for it. Amazing.
















