The General discusses authors

[Toby G Levy]

"What did you want to be?" a young man with a British accent--an
authentic Oxonian--asked.

"I wanted to be an astronaut," Clark said. "That was back when we had a
real space program. We all wanted to invade the red planet, right out of
Ray Bradbury's 'Martian Chronicles.'"

The Oxonian looked puzzled, and Clark asked, "Are you familiar with Ray
Bradbury?" He was not. "Not a science-fiction fan? What about 'Lord of
the Rings'? 

The young man nodded. “Tolkien was an Oxonian,” he said

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