Ray Bradbury RIP

[NQ6U]

Ray Bradbury, one of the true sci-fi originals, died today. He was 91.

[KK4AMI]

Ray Bradbury, one of the true sci-fi originals, died today. He was 91.

He was my hero. He literally taught me to read by giving me the hunger to read Sci-Fi.

[suddenseer]

Golden Apples in the Sun.

[KK4AMI]

Golden Apples in the Sun.

OK, I broke out laughing. Any particular reason you brought up that Anthology. Cuz it sounds like a good title for your sig line picture

[suddenseer]

My first Ray Bradbury book. That is my first, and best memory of his skill at writing.

[KK4AMI]

I was just joking. Mine was "R is for Rocket". Took it out of the school library in about 1965, then I read everything from him and every other Sci Fi author I could find

[suddenseer]

I was just joking. Mine was "R is for Rocket". Took it out of the school library in about 1965, then I read everything from him and every other Sci Fi author I could findI think we all agree that the world lost a great master writer this week.

[KB3LAZ]

RIP

[W3WN]

The Martian Chronicles.
I Sing The Body Electric.
Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Farenheight 451

Another of the legendary masters gone. I don't think there are too many from that era left, he was amongst the last.

Damn.

RIP

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ray-bradbury-20120607,0,3570142,full.story
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57448127-10391698/ray-bradbury-dead-at-91/

[N8YX]

He, Asimov and Sagan are hopefully comparing notes. RIP...

[KG4CGC]

The man was a visionary.

[W3WN]

He, Asimov and Sagan are hopefully comparing notes. RIP...And Heinlein. And Clarke...

[NQ6U]

But funny!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM

[WØTKX]

"R" is for Rocket.

One of my first Sci Fi reads as well.

Sigh.

[W1GUH]

He, Asimov and Sagan are hopefully comparing notes. RIP...

I hope NOTHING of Sagan rubs off on those two great authors! ( I think the publicity REALLY went to Carl's head.)

OTOH, Dr. Sagan was a pot head of extraordinary caliber. Gets points for that. And he DID write some great books. Broca's Brain is probably my favorite.

[W1GUH]

I LOVED the Martian Chronicles mini-series on TV. The book was outstanding, too, of course.

Could be my very favorite Bradbury work is The Illustrated Man. The movie, with Rod Steiger, is one I can watch over and over.

R.I.P, Mr. Bradbury.

[WØTKX]

You are one of the few I know that has read Broca's Brain. Effin' excellent.

[W1GUH]

You are one of the few I know that has read Broca's Brain. Effin' excellent.

My favorite part of it, and it's stuck with me for years, were his words about "predicting the future with dreams."

[n2ize]

Ray Bradbury is one of the few schience fiction writers that has actually produced stuff that I like. I generally dislike sci-fi (after all, who needs sci-fi when the real thing is far more fascinating). Nonetheless, Bradbury was one of the few sci-fi writers that could grab my attention and keep me interested. He was a great writer.

[NQ6U]

Ray Bradbury is one of the few schience fiction writers that has actually produced stuff that I like. I generally dislike sci-fi (after all, who needs sci-fi when the real thing is far more fascinating). Nonetheless, Bradbury was one of the few sci-fi writers that could grab my attention and keep me interested. He was a great writer.

It was Bradbury's humanity and mixture of sci-fi and fantasy that made his work so much different than his contemporaries in the field.

[PA5COR]

Most writers above their books can be found here in our book case here...

[W1GUH]

The movies of Bradbury's books always had a surreal aura to them that I loved. Must have worked closely with the producer and director?

[W3WN]

I LOVED the Martian Chronicles mini-series on TV. The book was outstanding, too, of course.

Could be my very favorite Bradbury work is The Illustrated Man. The movie, with Rod Steiger, is one I can watch over and over.

R.I.P, Mr. Bradbury.Bradbury wrote a lot for TV & movies, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that he personally had a hand in those projects.

As opposed to, say, the movie version of I, Robot -- used a few character names and some very basic concepts, but otherwise had nothing to do with Asimov's Robot books. And we won't even begin to discuss what they did to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters or Starship Troopers.

[kf0rt]

Must admit. I *tried* to read a Bradbury tome a long time ago and it never clicked with me. Not much into sci-fi.