The planets are always out there, silently orbiting, dancing with the stars. Normally we let the cosmic orbs sail by unnoticed. Now Mars and Venus are in the news and in the blogs. Days after the New Yorker published his essay "Take Me Home," about his childhood love affair with Mars, sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury (Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, etc.) passed away and blasted into his next dimension, at age 91. The New Yorker's Page Turner blog was quick to ask novelist Junot Diaz for a remembrance: "The truth is, for me, and for a whole generation of readers, I'm sure, Bradbury is never far from mind. He was simply too important, too indelible, his imagination too uncanny, his impact on the culture too sustained and profound....Bradbury influenced generations of readers and many of our most famous dreamers, from Stephen King to Steven Spielberg." "He preferred the term 'fantasy' to science fiction," says Vagabond Scholar, which rounds up many obits. Sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman quickly wrote an ode to Bradbury, intended for his own blog, but which the Guardian newspaper asked if it could use, so only the start of it, plus an excuse about it, is on the blog...