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Ray Bradbury -- gone.

by HeySal
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OMG OMG - this one made me cry. I loved this Author. Earth just lost another very great gift.

RIP Ray.
  • Profile picture of the author lcombs
    Damn! I grew up with Ray Bradbury, and Issac Azimov, among others.
    The Martian Chronicles is and always will be one of the all time great works.
    Not just in sci fy, but in literature.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    He was pretty interesting to listen to in addition to his writing. RIP Ray.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jacqueline Smith
    Wow....I had no idea!

    Huge loss indeed.

    RIP Ray
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    I read that earlier today. He was an amazing, amazing author.

    RIP Ray Bradbury
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    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
      I posted in the other thread, but it bears repeating.

      One of my favorite authors of all time.

      I was introduced to his writing style way back in the 7th grade. After reading the required stories, The Pendulum and Illustrated Man, I went on to read as many of his titles I could get my hands on.

      He was a master story teller.

      RIP Ray and God Speed

      Terra
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    RIP Ray Bradbury. Thanks for sharing to the world your stories.
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Ray Bradbury Quotes: Wisdom From 'Fahrenheit 451' Author
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    RIP Ray. A true loss to the sci-fi community.
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    • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
      A Great Interview with the Late, Great Ray Bradbury
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      I posted this Paris Review interview with Ray Bradbury last year just because it was one of the best PR interviews I’d ever come across – Bradbury is free of affectation, he’s instructive, interesting, an original. Now, in honor of his passing, I’d like to link to it again. Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 203, Ray Bradbury

      There are lots and lots of great quotes but I’ll go with this one:

      “Take Fahrenheit 451. You’re dealing with book burning, a very serious subject. You’ve got to be careful you don’t start lecturing people. So you put your story a few years into the future and you invent a fireman who has been burning books instead of putting out fires—which is a grand idea in itself—and you start him on the adventure of discovering that maybe books shouldn’t be burned. He reads his first book. He falls in love. And then you send him out into the world to change his life. It’s a great suspense story, and locked into it is this great truth you want to tell, without pontificating.

      “I often use the metaphor of Perseus and the head of Medusa when I speak of science fiction. Instead of looking into the face of truth, you look over your shoulder into the bronze surface of a reflecting shield. Then you reach back with your sword and cut off the head of Medusa. Science fiction pretends to look into the future but it’s really looking at a reflection of what is already in front of us. So you have a ricochet vision, a ricochet that enables you to have fun with it, instead of being self-conscious and superintellectual.”


      And one from the New York Times:

      Up From the Depths of Pulp and Into the Mainstream
      http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/bo...able.html?_r=1
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