Ray Bradbury RIP

[MANT!]

Another of the "Golden Age" science-fiction writers is gone.
Requiescat in pace Mr. Bradbury, I'll treasure all the books I own that you have written..

According to your friend Ray Harryhausen, you may have passed away at 91, but you were always mentally 19..

I'm watching It Came From Outer Space tonight.

 

[Klaus]

Well, his writing made it to Mars...

NASA craft carried digital copy of Bradbury’s “The Martian Chronicles,” other works to Mars

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

I have read and enjoyed books by Stephen King and other horror writers, but no stories I've ever read were able to frighten me like some of the ones in Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and October Country. He could write stuff that was truly emotionally gripping yet simultaneously poetic and beautiful.

 

[newtontomato539]

What is it about smart people who would rather be morons because they are scared?

Mr. Bradbury, I will do outmost to make sure the futures of "The Smile", "A Sound of Thunder" and 'Fahrenheit 451' never happen.

 

[plynch]

He may have had some truly warped political views, but I'll always be grateful to him for his work. "So it goes", as Vonnegut said.

Phew, I followed your link and only found pretty standard small-government views. No surprise, frankly, based on other quotes of his (mainly about doing your own thing) I've been reading.

2. He and Star Trek were the two big imagination-sparks to a boy in the seventies. I am grateful beyond words for Mr. Bradbury's use of his talents. So many of his characters and stories in my head. I think Martian Chronicles is among the best works in English.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

"R is for Rocket" and "S is for Space" were two of the first SF collections I read almost 40 years ago.

RIP

Sir Rhosis