โ Scribed by bradbury, Ray
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A LITTLE JOURNEY (August 1951) 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. Bradbury's THE FIREMAN (the short-form version of FAHRENHEIT 451 which was doubled in length for its book publication in 1953) appeared in the February 1951 issue of GALAXY and further solidified GALAXY's reputation, as a magazine of unprecedented originality and ambition. Gold's commitment to the highly ambitious THE FIREMAN was, then, courageous for its time and gave publicity to the editor's insistence that GALAXY was an entirely new kind of science...
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