RIP Ray Bradbury

[Guard Dog]

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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Science fiction author Ray Bradbury, whose imagination yielded classic books such as "Fahrenheit 451," "The Martian Chronicles" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes," has died at 91, his publisher said Wednesday.

 

Bradbury "died peacefully, last night, in Los Angeles, after a lengthy illness," HarperCollins said in a written statement.

Bradbury's books and 600 short stories predicted a variety of things, including the emergence of ATMs and live broadcasts of fugitive car chases.

 

"In a career spanning more than 70 years, Ray Bradbury has inspired generations of readers to dream, think and create," the statement said. "A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to 50 books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time."

 

Bradbury wrote the screenplay for John Huston's classic film adaptation of "Moby ****." He adapted 65 of his stories for television's "The Ray Bradbury Theater" and won an Emmy for his teleplay of "The Halloween Tree."

 

"In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back." he wrote in a book of essays published in 2005. "Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior."

 

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I've always like his writing. He was one of the first to begin writing of future societies as distopian in nature. Other than Orwell of course. Farenhiet 451 was one of my favorite books plus I had an old copy of "Golden Apples of the Sun" with a lot of short stories including The Sound of Thunder

 

 

Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there

[Humodour]

Damn. Fahrenheit 451 was good.

[Meshugger]

Fahrenheit 451 was one of the first books that i read in english. I didn't read any of his other books though. R.I.P.

[LadyCrimson]

Y'know, I was never a huge fan of his books. It's not about what's in them/the stories, it was his writing style. I tended to like his short stories more than novel-lengths. But he was a huge creative and other influence and will be sorely missed/mourned. At least he had a good long life.