Posted on 06/06/2012 11:32:38 AM PDT by null and void
Edited on 06/06/2012 12:09:05 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LOS ANGELES -- Ray Bradbury, the science fiction-fantasy master who transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of "Fahrenheit 451," has died. He was 91.
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rest in peace.
and thank you
Sad...
Bradbury, Asimov, and Heinlein, along with the other giants from the Gernsbach era, were a significant part of my young adulthood...
“No damn cat - no damn cradle!”
RIP - you will be missed...
F. 451 was a creepy tale.
Freepers loved Bradbury, or should have anyways. This headline from US News and Word Reports: “Ray Bradbury Loved Reagan, Called Clinton a ‘Sh*thead’”
I’ve read several of Bradbury’s books. All seemed to have the voice of a 12 or 13 year old, in awe of what that child observed.
He was elderly, and this is no surprise...but it hurts, just the same.
Anyone who has been a boy and reads Dandelion Wine without tears, has no heart.
Read the paper-back version of Martian Chronicles when I was in high school. Still remember the impression he made. May he rest in peace.
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Just don’t tell me that he opted to be cremated.....
Bradbury was great. I’ve read probably 50% of his work and love it.
Have we now lost all of the Golden Age SF Authors? Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Del Rey, De Camp, Hubbard and now Bradbury.
I feel old.
I met Bradbury at the Pasadena Playhouse. He spent an hour talking to students and fans. A good guy!
RIP
Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors. I loved the story “Something Wicked This Way Comes” but enjoyed reading anything he wrote.
One of my top 5 favorite authors of all time.
Beautiful writing, wonderful stories.
Favorites:
Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
The Martian Chronicles
Short Stories:
And There Will Come Soft Rains
Zero Hour
The Veldt
And many many many others.
I treasure each one of his books.
Bon
A legend.
RIP
In another site, the appended comment was written for Ray Bradbury’s passing, worth propagating. I did not keep the URL, sorry! The author on that site was “Kip Russell” but I suspect that is a pseudonym from “Have Spacesuit-Will Travel” by Robert A Heinlein.
In any case, Godspeed Ray Bradbury!
Kip Russell
Wed 06 Jun 2012 7:22 AM
Somewhere in America, a boy tap-dances a on a tuned segment of discarded wooden sidewalk, calling his friends to run over the hills by moonlight...
Out on the Veldt, the animals pause for a moment, as though something unseen had passed through their midst...
Somewhere on Mars, a new silver fire is burning to welcome him...
By the river, a Book stops it’s recitation for the day, to remember a fine man who wrote such fine, fine things.
Thanks be, for Ray Bradbury, who taught me that there could be poetry in prose.
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