Bradbury

It was announced yesterday that Ray Bradbury had died. 

I became a Bradbury fan when I was in sixth or seventh grade, and he remained one of my favorite writers. Articles and tributes filled the internet yesterday.  The piece below from the New York Post:

 

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Ray Bradbury

There was, quite simply, no writer like Ray Bradbury, the futurist who brought science fiction into the literary mainstream.

Many of his 30 books are classics — including “The Martian Chronicles,” “The Illustrated Man” and “Dandelion Wine.”

And his work in the early post-WWII years reflected both the wonders and growing fears of rapidly advancing technology.

But Bradbury, who died Tuesday at 91, never considered himself a science fiction writer. That term he reserved only for his most important book, “Fahrenheit 451.”

That 1953 dystopian work, named for the temperature at which paper ignites, was an eloquent denunciation of book-burning.

But Bradbury would later say it was less about censorship and the threat “from Big Brother, [than the one] from little sister [and] all those groups . . . who want to impose their views from below.”

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