Ray Bradbury Dies: Celebrating the Life of Literary Pioneer

[lisab]

When I was a youngster, "The Martian Chronicles", "The Illustrated Man", and "Fahrenheit 451" were all required reading for us nerdy types.

RIP, Mr Bradbury!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/entertainment-us-usa-bradbury-idUSBRE8550UC20120606

 

[Doc Al]

 

[Astronuc]

When I was a youngster, "The Martian Chronicles", "The Illustrated Man", and "Fahrenheit 451" were all required reading for us nerdy types.

RIP, Mr Bradbury!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/entertainment-us-usa-bradbury-idUSBRE8550UC20120606

I read the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 in high school.

RIP, RB!

 

[Evo]

I think I read almost everything he wrote. R.I.P.

 

[Borek]

RIP Ray, you were read even here.

 

[dlgoff]

RIP Ray Bradbury.

Thanks for making things like this possible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEMWtyAKRhQ

 

[turbo]

What a great author. He'll be missed.

 

[phinds]

I've got everything he ever wrote, although most of it isn't the first copy I read 'cause I got those from a library in my teens but I love his stuff so much I bought everything later. My kids have also read some of his best.

RIP

 

[turbo]

Some of his best works (IMO) were not the novels and novellas that got so much attention, but the short stories that turned up in the pulps.

I was quite lucky that my friend's father was a fan of the pulps and he subscribed to quite a few of them. I was careful with his books, and always returned them in good order, so I got to read a lot of stories that I could not have afforded otherwise. Very nice guy. MIT prof with national security experience from the beginnings of the cold war. AND a fan of science fiction. His library was incredible. Still, I loved those pulps.

 

[Evo]

I absolutely loved the short stories in "The Illustrated Man". "The veldt", and "Last night of the World" are two of my favorites, although all are excellent. I still periodically remember that scene from "The long rain" in the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man

 

[turbo]

Bradbury's short stories were among the best in the pulps. He had a way of expressing complex situations with minimal words, and still made the stories enjoyable and readable. The editors of those pulps had a way of coaxing cogent and compact stories out of their contributors, as explained in many fan-mags. I doubt that Bradbury needed such guidance.

 

[Danger]

He had a way of expressing complex situations with minimal words, and still made the stories enjoyable and readable.

That actually explains, as well as I could, my opinion of him. He was not a Science Fiction writer, in that he had no regard for scientific accuracy. He was a brilliant poet and fantasist, whose vision frequently tended toward the future. Normally, I detest poetry, but his was in a class by itself. I'm sorry that he is no longer here.