A review by dknippling
The October Country by Ray Bradbury

4.0

Having recently read a bunch of Bradbury, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I like his short stories *much* better than his longer fiction. When I try to take the stories as masterpieces of fiction writing with all the pomp and ceremony of high literature...I just can't. But if I look at these as pulp ground out in the 40s and 50s, it's fun stuff, easy, quick reads, felicitously and skillfully written, with a simple twist somewhere along towards the end. I could have just as easily skipped the two stories from FROM THE DUST RETURNED, but really that's a small quibble.