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06-06-2012 #1Freudian Slip Platinum Poster
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Ray Bradbury - RIP
We just lost one of the great SF authors of the 20th century
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I'm sure he won't be resting in peace. He was always turning the past into the future and will continue to do so for a long while to come. What an imagination!
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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Sad day. A terrific imagineer
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Re: Ray Bradbury - RIP
Wasn't he the guy that started Star Trek?
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Re: Ray Bradbury - RIP
no ..... that was gene roddenberry Originally Posted by Silcc69
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i walked into a Hyatt Regency Hotel circa 2000 along side of a lincoln towne car . the passenger in the back seat got out right next to me and i said to myself .... hey, that's ray bradberry ( which it was ) .
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Re: Ray Bradbury - RIP
He's best known for Fahrenheit 451. Originally Posted by Silcc69
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He wrote some wonderful books. "Something Wicked This way Comes" is one of my favourites. But as Wendy says Fahrenheit 451 is probably the widest known of his books because of the great film version..
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Wonderful Post! Well said! Originally Posted by trish
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RIP Ray, one of my all-time heroes. His other most famous work is probably The Martian Chronicles, along with Something Wicked This Way Comes, and not to mention The October Country, The Illustrated Man, and dozens of others. His great hallmark in SF though was that he was one of the first great literary stylists in the genre.
Regarding Fahrenheit 451, he told the Wall Street Journal in 2003, “I wasn’t trying to predict the future, I was trying to prevent it.” And in the same novel he described the "seashell" radio which fit in one's ear and which decades later inspired the inventor of the Sony Walkman.
In 2007 he published a marvelous pair of novellas, Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band is Playing & Leviathan '99.
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