Curiosity

Let's take a quick group tour with Mind-Travel to visit Mars right now, before the Curiosity Rover makes a landing late tonight.

It's possible that the civilization on Mars is a quantum dimensional shift from our current frequency of vibration, several micro-oscillations out of sync so that we don't have direct evidence of it. When we finally can launch the Bradbury Rover, it will have a detector on board that will view in various frequencies, and THEN we'll REALly see something.

Ron Miller — Martian City — digital art

In the meantime, wishing the very best of fortune to the Curiosity and it's Earth team during it's seven minutes of terror. I'll be watching and hopefully you will too— on NASA TV.

Accountability

Beware of disreputable Mind-Travel Agents that have dismal accountability, liable to leave you stranded in some corner of the universe with no return ticket. Such has happened, such as below, travelers that received a confirmation for pick-up that just indicated "tomorrow, midnight" — but didn't leave a clue as to a date or coordinates. These unfortunate fellows traversed the Kingston III planetoid multiple times hoping to intersect their transport home.

No they never returned, and their fate is still unlearned.

Frank Frazetta — Tomorrow Midnight

The Gift

Ray Bradbury was one of those few science fiction writers embraced by a mainstream audience as well as the SF/Sci-Fi geeks. His work spanned from pulps and comics to elite hardback books and glossy magazines, from The Saturday Evening Post to Playboy and Esquire.

He was a gift and was embraced by all.

"An Interpretation of Ray Bradbury's Christmas Story — The Gift

Painted Especially for Esquire by Ren Wicks" — December 1952

Roaming the Eons

This is a favorite photo of our dearly departed Ray Bradbury, sitting in the original time machine from the classic film, around 1960.

I'd like to think that he is somewhere roaming the eons.

photo © 2001 Ray Bradbury