This is my second post for Memoir Monday. This week, the prompt is: what were your favorite books or stories when you were a child.
My favorite set of books is pictured right above. It was a set of books from the Soviet Union called: "Library of modern science fiction"
This was a set of twenty-five books published between 1965 and 1973.
This wasn't just Soviet writers it included the likes of Ray Bradbury, Isaac Azimov, Harry Harrison, and many others.
Originally, this was planned to be a fifteen book set, but they couldn't fit it all in and issued twenty-five books.
I read every single book as a child, and it was absolutely fascinating to me.
One of my favorite authors was Ray Bradbury and, in particular, his novel: Fahrenheit 451.
I absolutely loved the story and burning of the books by firemen.
At the time I read his books, I had no idea that I would come to America and study at the University of Kansas. That in itself would have been a science fiction story for a child growing up in the Soviet Union.
Yet, in less than a decade, the Soviet Union fell, and I got a scholarship to study in America.
One day, I heard that one of my favorite science fiction authors is coming to the University of Kansas.
I bought a couple of books and got tickets and had heard Ray Bradbury speak and then sign my books!
It was like a dream. Ray Bradbury was very old but still mentally tack sharp and with a very subversive sense of humor.
I have The Golden Apples of the Sun still in my possession. Fahrenheit 451 book is with my ex-wife.
I would have preferred to get Fahrenheit 451 book, but we don't always get what we want.
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