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    The man was a visionary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    He, Asimov and Sagan are hopefully comparing notes. RIP...
    And Heinlein. And Clarke...
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    NSFW

    But funny!

    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    "R" is for Rocket.

    One of my first Sci Fi reads as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    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.
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    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.
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    You are one of the few I know that has read Broca's Brain. Effin' excellent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WØTKX View Post
    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."
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    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.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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