If a fictional character is lucky enough to survive 70 years, they are generally rewarded with the honor of being a household name. Such is the case with comic heroes Batman and Green Lantern. Now, I can’t say definitively that author Ray Bradbury is not as well known as he should be, but I’m sure that many people who’ve seen his work are unaware of it. For example, who remembers that he wrote the 1956 film adaptation of Moby Dick, or that his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes was a major influence on Stephen King?Bradbury’s first work was published in the sci-fi fanzine Imagination! In 1938, a short story title “Hollerbochen’s Dilemma.” Although this story is not currently collected, it wasn’t long before he was gaining recognition from science fiction and literary circles alike. In 1945, his story “Big Black and White Game” was collected in the Best American Short Stories annual anthology. The title refers to a baseball game played between a white team and a black team, in which racial tensions bubble to the surface. The story can be found in the omnibus collection A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories. Read all »