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Challenge
Name: Bradbury Title Challenge
Date(s): June 2002
Moderator(s):
Founder: Liviapenn
Type: Challenge, Fan Fiction
Fandom: Smallville
URL: http://www.debchan.com/livia/smallville/bradbury.html
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The Bradbury Title Challenge (also The Ray Bradbury Title Challenge) was a one-off fanfic challenge, posted by Liviapenn in June 2002 to her livejournal. The challenge was, simply, to write a piece of Smallville fanfic, using the title of a Ray Bradbury story or novel.[1]

It was an extremely successful challenge, perhaps because it was riding on the success of the previous X-Title Challenge, and perhaps because, like the X-Title Challenge, the guidelines were extremely loose; there was no deadline, no pairing or genre restrictions, and no required word count. More than one person could write a story using a certain title if they were so inspired, and several authors wrote multiple stories.

Stories were posted in various places: to the Level Three Record Room, the Smallville Slash Archive, to livejournal or fanfiction.net, or to authors' personal websites. An index page of all the stories was created on debchan.com, but disappeared when that domain expired, but based on three posts in Dreamwidth about the challenge it was possible to expand the list of works.[2][3]

Challenge Rules

*The Ray Bradbury Title Challenge*

Rules:

1. Choose the title of a story by Ray Bradbury. Write a Smallville story with that title. Any length, het, gen or slash; any pairing or no pairing at all.

2. Try to do the more complex ones: "come into my cellar." "no particular night or morning." "a final sceptre, a lasting crown." Bradbury has a ton of really simple titles: "the candle," "the city," "the crowd," but try to do the cool ones first, kay? :)

2a. (And let's not all rush to do "The Blue Bottle," okay? Like there haven't been enough Ty Nant stories? *grins* Okay, that's all I'm gonna say on that.)

3. Oh, yeah, and two people can choose the same title, just like the x-title challenge.

4. Do not send me the stories. Upload them to your personal page or www.smallvillefanfic.com or http://smallville.slashdom.com or fanfiction.net (when it's working again.) Leave a comment here with the URL, and in a while I'll put together an index page linking all of them.

5. Crossovers are okay.

6. Te can write a Bradbury-title story. But she has to write a James Tiptree, Jr.-title story, too. Why? Because I said so.

Lists of Bradbury titles can be found here:

This is good page that includes some alternate titles. Which are fine to use as titles for the challenge. http://www.hycyber.com/SF/stories_of_bradbury_index.html

On this page, look under "short fiction" for the short story titles (don't do the poems or essays.)

http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/a_exact_author.cgi?Ray_Bradbury[4]

Stories

fanfic title
fanwriter
A Final Sceptre, A Lasting Crown / crossposting at SSA RaeC
A Little Journey Hope
A Medicine for Melancholy Meret
A Scent of Sarsparilla Janet F. Caires-Lesgold
A Sound of Thunder Jayne Leitch
All Summer In A Day Victoria P.
Almost to the End of the World seperis
And Dark Our Celebration Was Hth
And the Sailor, Home from the Sea Jack
At Midnight, In the Month of June Hope
[August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains] Kiren
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! Julad
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! Kitty Fisher
Come Into My Cellar HYPERFocused
[Dandelion Wine] bonibaru
Dandelion Wine dossier
Darling Adolf DebC
Drunk, And In Charge of a Bicycle Jayne Leitch
Graveyard for Lunatics EA Karras
Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You Lydia
In a Season of Calm Weather Hope
[In a Season of Calm Weather] Linda
Interval in Sunlight valentine
Kaleidoscope Pearl-o
King of the Gray Spaces Te
Long After Midnight Edie
Long After Midnight eleanorb
Long After Midnight Jules
Night Call, Collect Sarah T.
No Particular Night or Morning The Spike
[No Particular Night or Morning] Wendi
Rain King Juanita Dark
Some Live Like Lazarus Rana Eros
Something Wicked This Way Comes keelywolfe
The Autumn People seperis
[The Best of All Possible Worlds] Kiren
The Black Ferris HYPERFocused
The Blue Bottle Jules
The Day It Rained Forever keelywolfe
The Dragon Dances at Midnight Amanda
The End of the Beginning / crossposting at SSA and Elegant Slumming Archive Pablo
[The Fire Balloons] That Nashvegas Chick
The Great Collision of Monday Last Amanda
The Great Wide World Over There Criss Moody
The Leave-Taking HYPERFocused
The Naming of Names seperis
The Next In Line Pearl-o
The Off Season Livia
The One Who Waits BlueJade
The Small Assassin Amanda
The Small Assassin Sarah T.
The Sound of Summer Running Zahra
The Thing That Goes by Night: The Self That Lazes Sun Ilexa
The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place Zahra
The Town Where Nobody Got Off / crossposting at AO3 Brighid
There Will Come Soft Rains Laura Kaye
Uncle Einar Shrift
Wake for the Living yavannauk
What I Do Is Me - For That I Came Te and seperis
Yes, We'll Gather At The River / crossposting at AO3 Treacy PurpleSage

References

  1. ^ Liviapenn, posts tagged sv: bradbury title challenge on dreamwidth; posts & associated comments were originally made to/hosted on livejournal: "liviapenn Entries tagged with sv: bradbury title challenge". 2013-11-13. Archived from the original on 2013-11-13.
  2. ^ "liviapenn The Bradbury Title Challenge Page Is Up". 2002-06-18. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17.
  3. ^ "liviapenn Bradbury & X-Title Challenges". 2002-12-07. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17.
  4. ^ "liviapenn The Bradbury Title Challenge". 2002-06-16. Archived from the original on 2022-04-17.