Ray Bradbury Turns 88

Lawrence Person writes "Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury turned 88 years old on August 22. Happy Birthday Ray! 'The Illustrated Man' was one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and I've been hooked ever since. I'm sure that's true of a lot of science fiction writers and readers, be it that, or 'The Martian Chronicles,' or 'Fahrenheit 451.' There are also several videos of Ray on that page, including one where he doesn't endorse Sunsweet Prunes." I remember when another student on the bus loaned me "Fahrenheit 451," and my middle-school English teacher Mrs. Young was smart enough to include "All Summer in a Day" in her curriculum.

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Meh

[Guppy06]

Clarke is dead but Bradbury persists. There is no God.

Oh yes, I've read your precious Fahrenheit and your Martian Chronicles, much to my dismay. Simply because he said 'teh future!' in one and 'Mars, bitches!' in the next somehow makes these browbeating, one-dimensional allegories that could literally have been set in any place and time "Great Works in Science Fiction" (TM).

H. G. Wells. E. E. Smith. Not Ray Bradbury.

Re:Meh

[VAXcat]

Guppy06 is right on. The pap that Bradbury wrote is the stuff that English teachers confuse with real science fiction