Author Ray Bradbury dies at age 91

[UrbScotty]

Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Ray Bradbury has died at 91 after a lengthy career of writing everything from science-fiction and mystery to humor.

Reached at Bradbury's home, his daughter, Alexandra Bradbury, says her father died Tuesday night in Southern California. She did not have additional details.

Bradbury transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and his vision of a high-tech, book-burning future in "Fahrenheit 451."

He also scripted the 1956 film version of "Moby Dick" and wrote for "The Twilight Zone."

Bradbury's series of stories in "The Martian Chronicles" was a Cold War morality tale in which events on another planet served as a commentary on life on this planet. It has been published in more than 30 languages.

Read more: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120606/WIRE/120609751

[chervilant]

1. Sad

Our species has lost a great voice.

[annabanana]

2. Windows into the unlikely, but somehow not

impossible...

[Javaman]

3. RIP Mr Bradbury...

I loved your books as a kid.

On a side note: I thought he was already dead.

[deutsey]

5. Yeah, I thought he was already dead too

Regardless,: RIP, Mr. Bradbury.

[cosmicaug]

6. #### me, Ray Bradbury

I knew he was alive at least mid 2010.

[bananas]

11. That was an alternate timeline. nt

[Javaman]

17. Good one! nt

[slackmaster]

4. One of my favorite instructional films in school was Ray Bradbury, Story of a Writer

[deutsey]

12. That was interesting

Thanks for posting!

Wish I had seen it when I was younger, though.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. A truly insightful author. RIP

[Kali]

8. ah...good bye

[AngryAmish]

9. too soon, too soon

[Gormy Cuss]

10. Loved many of his works.

RIP, Ray.

[Octafish]

13. The Martian Chronicler passed to the next world on the day Venus transited the Sun.

His works changed our world for the better. I heard him in a radio interview say he grew up in modest circumstances. He credited his abilities to his education at the Los Angeles Public Library, where he was a voracious reader.

I will remember Mr. Bradbury as long as I have breath.

[AsahinaKimi]

14. Here was a SCI FI author

besides Issac Asimov, who counted as one of my favorites. Later I became a huge fan of Michael Crichton, but it was Bradburry who got me started reading Science Fiction.. so many years ago.


personal note, just hit my 13,000 th post.. yay.

[kooljerk666]

15. He was great Friend w/ Ray Harryhausen..........

----and did a lot on the great "Earth vs The Flying Saucers".

connections to E vs FS.... http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=ray+bradberry+earth+vs.+the+flying+saucers+1956&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

On Earth vs The Flying Saucers DVD there are some great extras & I am pretty sure Ray was on for 10-15 minutes describing sci/fi & much much more.

E vs FS page
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001969/

Rays Page
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049169/

[randome]

16. I drew those flying saucers compulsively as a kid.

Along with a great many other famous rocket ships, robots and monsters.

(I am not an artist, by the way.)

[exboyfil]

18. Last of the Titans

Geek boy growing up with Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Farmer, Burroughs, Dick, Zelazny, Simak, Brackett, Norton, and Bradbury.

We still have LeGuin, Pohl, and Vance.

The Illustrated Man was the first really serious book I ever read and it made quite an impact.

[dipsydoodle]

19. RIP

I remember reading his books 50 odd years ago.

[Maeve]

20. The first SF books I remember reading were his

'S is for Space' and 'R is for Rocket'--they were in our classroom library and so began my love of the genre.

RIP, Ray. You wrote dreams and nightmares that will go on long after you.

[Wheezy]

21. RIP.

[Jack Rabbit]

22. RIP

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[RebelOne]

23. I loved all his novels and stories.

RIP Ray Bradbury.

[msanthrope]

24. RIP, Mr. Bradbury...and here's a fan tribute that he loved, NSFW

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/70bf2e4f05/fuck-me-ray-bradbury

[Baclava]

25. RIP - I grew up reading his stories

all those guys from back then, don't really know how many are still alive - Arthur C Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, especially the Foundation series... and Bradbury, Alfred Bester, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Hal Clement, L. Sprague de Camp, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt.....those guys...still have their books



I know I read 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Philip K. Dick long before they turned into it Bladerunner.

I love short stories - - The Books of Blood by Clive Barker was one of my favorite short story compilations.

I read all the Riverworld stuff by Philip José Farmer too...pretty trippy.


Kinda my Golden Age of Science fiction writers.

[BlueIris]

26. One of my all time favorites.

Nobody better in that genre, truly.

[lunatica]

27. Great Science Fiction author

Rest in Peace Sir.

[tabasco]

28. An awesome talent.

RIP

[Odin2005]

29. I heard about this on the way to the bookstore this morning. Damn!

RIP, Ray!

All the old Sci-Fi greats are dying. Of all the Golden Age stuff I read growing up in the 90s only LeGuin and Pohl are still with us.

[Psephos]

30. Oww, that one hurts.

Out on a Martian hillside, children tumble and laugh clutching copper spiders, while their parents light fires of silver and crystal to salute the bright new star shining above.

On the Veldt, lions roar low, shaking their heads, aware that something unseen has passed by them in the night....

You have finally become a Book yourself, Bradbury. Thank you.

[sakabatou]

31. One of my favorite authors