Ray Bradbury - RIP

[Wendy Summers]

We just lost one of the great SF authors of the 20th century :(

[trish]

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!

[Prospero]

Sad day. A terrific imagineer

[Silcc69]

Wasn't he the guy that started Star Trek?

[Cecil Rhodes]

Wasn't he the guy that started Star Trek?

no ..... that was gene roddenberry

[Cecil Rhodes]

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 ) .

[Wendy Summers]

Wasn't he the guy that started Star Trek?

He's best known for Fahrenheit 451.

[Prospero]

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..

[samantha999]

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!
Wonderful Post! Well said!

[Ecstatic]

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.

[GroobyKrissy]

Very sad. The Illustrated Man is one of my favorite stories.

[fred41]

RIP...loved his stuff early on as a child and into my (presumed) adulthood

[tao1kiku]

Another of the great SF writers gone. Grew up on his works, he will be greatly missed

[sukumvit boy]

Just last night I read a great one page piece by him. He tells how he became interested in science fiction as a 7 or 8 year old , reading Buck Rogers and "Amazing Stories" in 1928 ! The title was 'Take me Home'
Your home now ,
rest in peace Ray

The piece is in the June 4 The New Yorker

[Lovecox]

I read everything he wrote when I was a kid. His stories made me love to read. His imagination and humanity were unique. He could also scare the pants off you (read the short story "Skeleton") I think Stephen King borrowed from "The Emissary" and "The Small Assassin" when he wrote Pet Semetary.
Anyway, a great mind and a true humanitarian.

[Ben]

Reminds me of my childhood. As my dad gave me loads of Ray Bradbury books when I was a kid.

[trish]

I remember loving "Dandelion Wine" when I was a kid.

[Cyclops]

As his creations are read and viewed by new generations,he will live on.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

The man was a genius! If the world gets past 21 December 2012, his will continue to provide stimulating entertainment for eons.

[fred41]

I remember loving "Dandelion Wine" when I was a kid.

wow...forgot about that book...I was young when I read it and thought it was gonna be sci-fi like all his other stuff.
It wasn't (as you know)...but it was magic anyway.
It was summer.(..and escape of a different sort)
Thanks.

[luv4Tgirls]

A great loss to the SiFi world and us geeks who enjoyed his work

[talldudeil]

He introduced me to the wonderful world of SF over 30 years ago, He will be missed

[irvin66]

Rest in peace Ray Bradbury, highly you will be missed!

[Stavros]

I read Bradbury in my teens and my admiration has never dimmed. I would like to add The Golden Apples of the Sun, which hasn't been mentioned. The story Time Safari is a particuarly inventive one. Unlike fantasy writers who invent words or technical jargon, it is the simplicity with which he writes that gives his stories an immediate appeal. The films failed to capture the elegance of the prose, neither Fahrenheit 451 nor The Illustrated Man really worked as films, apparently Oskar Werner spent most of the film rowing with Truffaut, a second-rate director by any standards.

I wonder which book people would become if they could? I could never learn lines for a play, so I dont know how I could ever memorise an entire book.

[Prospero]

I'd disagree regarding Truffaut. Day For Night was a terrific film.

[Stavros]

Another director we are not going to agree on, I really can't think of a single film of his that is worth watching, including Day for Night. He writes well and his book on Hitchcock remains one of the best sources on that particular director.