I found a book of Ray Bradbury stories.  I have been sitting in the backyard reading them and they blow my little mind.  He and Gene Roddenberry who created Star Trek were friends.  Both seeded our universe.

"A Sound of Thunder" about a safari back into time where the participants can hunt dinosaurs.  Heaven help them if they veer off the path and step on a butterfly.  This is where the term 'the butterfly effect' came from.

"Fire and Ice" about a place where people only live eight days.  What a wild ride that story was!  So well done and suspenseful.  He loves the theme of man colonizing space and adapting to the differences.

  "The Strawberry Window" where a family moves to Mars to help colonize it and finds they miss Earth and their house.  The dad has the solution and it just might work.  The scene when he remembers staring out the beveled stained glass door of their house on Earth thru all the different colors and loving the strawberry colored square the best.

  "The Dragon"  This was just a few pages and the viewpoint changed from a primitive people who were afraid of a dragon coming over the hills and in the end to the viewpoint of the engineers driving the steam locomotive thru the hills.  Great twist!

  What an imagination Bradbury had!  He knew just how to play it all too.  I remember the movie based on the "Illustrated Man" where the tattoos came to life.  GEEZ.  And the "Martian Chronicles" made an impact on me too.  When I was very young I read "Dandelion Wine" and it really got into my mind and changed me.  

  Oh, I just remembered another story that was made into a film.  When I read it I was terrified and when I saw it I was so sad.  He touched so brilliantly on the way humans can hurt others.  The story was "Summer All in a Day" and it was about a little girl that was locked away on the one day in a year when the sun shown on their planet.  Pathos.  

   Thank you Mr Ray Bradbury for being there for me all my life. Life on Earth isn't easy and even if we do make it to other planets we will still have the same human stuff to deal with.  Bradbury had a feud over plagarism with Rod Sterling of the Twilight Zone series.  I guess they were all just human.