I’ve been a fan of writer Ray Bradbury since reading The Martian Chronicles and listening to Bradbury 13, a fantastic series that did audio fiction adaptations of, well, 13 short stories (the latter is still an inspiration for our work with Jabber Audio).
So when Bradbury passed in 2012, I read the various obituaries and remembrances and several mentioned an anecdote Bradbury had told about an encounter with a magician in the 1930s. It’s a fantastical little tale that, no surprise, would fit in a Ray Bradbury story.
Now, thanks to Eric Ofgang writing for Smithsonian magazine earlier this month, there are some questions about how reliable a narrator Ray Bradbury was in his tale of the mysterious Mr. Electrico.
