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Offline Chris_

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Ray Bradbury passes away at 91
« on: June 06, 2012, 09:36:07 AM »


Ray Bradbury — author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and many more literary classics — died this morning in Los Angeles, at the age of 91.

We've got confirmation from the family as well as his biographer, Sam Weller.

His grandson, Danny Karapetian, shared these words with io9 about his grandfather's passing: "If I had to make any statement, it would be how much I love and miss him, and I look forward to hearing everyone's memories about him. He influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it's always really touching and comforting to hear their stories. Your stories. His legacy lives on in his monumental body of books, film, television and theater, but more importantly, in the minds and hearts of anyone who read him, because to read him was to know him. He was the biggest kid I know."

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Re: Ray Bradbury passes away at 91
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2012, 10:02:34 AM »
He was one of my favorite authors   :(  God bless you, Mr. Bradbury.
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Re: Ray Bradbury passes away at 91
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2012, 11:11:39 AM »
Quote from: njpines on June 06, 2012, 10:02:34 AM
He was one of my favorite authors   :(  God bless you, Mr. Bradbury.

One of THE GIANTS of speculative/science fiction, nj. He was one of those authors with a truly distinctive, even lyrical prose style, as opposed to the simply serviceable prose of the other two very well known contemporaries of his, Arthur Clarke or Asimov, both master storytellers as Bradbury was, but not known for investing their actual prose with the kind of elan that Ray Bradbury did. The only other author I can think of who truly outshone in the area of prose styling in SF was Roger Zelazny, himself dead of cancer in '93.

In honor of the great man's passing--and he was a great man--here's one of his saddest, maybe the saddest (and often most remembered) of his short stories, "There Will Come Soft Rains," loosely part of The Martian Chronicles. It feels appropriate, somehow.

http://www.jerrywbrown.com/datafile/datafile/110/ThereWillComeSoftRains_Bradbury.pdf
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Re: Ray Bradbury passes away at 91
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2012, 12:04:39 PM »
The story I remember best was "Small Assassin."  Terrified the crap out of me.  It was about a baby who got up and went around killing his family with a knife. 

RIP, Mr. Bradbury. 
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Re: Ray Bradbury passes away at 91
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2012, 12:45:26 PM »
He was in many ways, the subject of his writing in "The Illustrated Man". He will be sorely missed by so many including me. RIP good sir.
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