One way we can go to Mars is through imagery of a great writer.
Ray Bradbury will be missed but his stories will live on.
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Ray Bradbury, recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91 after a long illness. He lived in Los Angeles.
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Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012)[1][4] was an American fantasy, horror, scie
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Writers, filmmakers react to Ray Bradbury's death
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reaction to the death of author Ray Bradbury:
"He was my muse for the better part of my sci-fi career. He lives on through his legion of fans. In the world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination he is immortal." - Steven Spielberg
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"He was always my favorite science fiction writer because what he did was rooted in reality. He never got really out there." - Tom Wolfe
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"He was kind, and gentle, and always filled with enthusiasm, and that the landscape of the world we live in would have been diminished if we had not had him in our world." - Neil Gaiman
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Here is to looking up, and adventures of the mind when reality fails to live up to our expectations.
Then again, imagination is a great way to think of what might be possible with commitment, perseverance, and money. :-)
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A Ray Bradbury reading selection
'The Martian Chronicles,' 'Fahrenheit 451' and 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' are among the late Ray Bradbury's most influential works.
By Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times
June 7, 2012
If there's simply not enough time to read Ray Bradbury's entire body of work (even if you don't have a fireman with a flamethrower banging on your door), why not zero in on some of the books that stunned audiences and laid the foundation of his fame? Here are a few suggestions:The Martian Chronicles" (1950): Bradbury was a young, hungry writer with stories appearing in various magazines when he published this novelistically arranged collection of stories. The red planet fascinated Bradbury, but this book isn't a fantasy in the same fashion as Edgar Rice Burroughs' adventures of John Carter. The notion of colonizing Mars was less inspired by wild speculation than by the bleak cloud of nuclear war hanging over the world in the years when the stories were written and the book was published. Building a new human civilization on Mars is certainly an appealing notion when the old one on Earth seems on the brink of destruction. There are plenty of fascinating stories here to lose oneself in, but one of the most shuddering is "There Will Come Soft Rains," in which Bradbury takes readers into an automated house on Earth that continues with its numerous, daily routines even though the family isn't there to enjoy them. What happened to them? They were vaporized in an atomic blast.
June 7, 2012
If there's simply not enough time to read Ray Bradbury's entire body of work (even if you don't have a fireman with a flamethrower banging on your door), why not zero in on some of the books that stunned audiences and laid the foundation of his fame? Here are a few suggestions:The Martian Chronicles" (1950): Bradbury was a young, hungry writer with stories appearing in various magazines when he published this novelistically arranged collection of stories. The red planet fascinated Bradbury, but this book isn't a fantasy in the same fashion as Edgar Rice Burroughs' adventures of John Carter. The notion of colonizing Mars was less inspired by wild speculation than by the bleak cloud of nuclear war hanging over the world in the years when the stories were written and the book was published. Building a new human civilization on Mars is certainly an appealing notion when the old one on Earth seems on the brink of destruction. There are plenty of fascinating stories here to lose oneself in, but one of the most shuddering is "There Will Come Soft Rains," in which Bradbury takes readers into an automated house on Earth that continues with its numerous, daily routines even though the family isn't there to enjoy them. What happened to them? They were vaporized in an atomic blast.
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