Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Family tree

Jules Verne was may father.
H. G. Wells was my wise uncle.
Edgar Allan Poe was the batwinged cousin we kept high in the back attic room.
Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers were my brothers and friends.
There you have my ancestry.
Adding, of course, the fact that in all probability Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of _Frankenstein_, was my mother.

Ray Bradbury, introduction to _S Is for Space_ (1966)