The best time to read Ray Bradbury stories is when you are thirteen years old. The second best time is right now. When I was 13, I read The October Country, a collection of some of Bradbury’s earliest published short stories. When I was 14 and 15 and 16 and every age since then, I immersed myself in Bradbury’s works – The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man, A Medicine For Melancholy, Dandelion Wine, and so many more, almost every book he released during his long and prolific writing career. Like many people growing up in the 60s and 70s, Bradbury made me...