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Ray Bradbury -
June 7th, 2012
Ray Bradbury, 91, passed away Tuesday, and if you just said "who’s he?" please car-jack a European sports car and get your ass to the local bookstore pronto.
A literary titan, sci-fi savant and cultural visionary, Bradbury was bewildering bibliophiles and rattling readers with his literary prose long before computers, Star Wars and video games. A master at weaving outrageously imaginative and futuristic tales, Ray’s stories entertained, inspired and horrified.
As a kid, when mumps stalled my airport fieldtrip, Bradbury’s prose took me millions of miles beyond the stars. It was a ride I’ll never forget. Thanks for your words, Ray. Bon voyage!
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Amount it cost Ray Bradbury to write his classic, Fahrenheit 451, on coin operated typewriters at UCLA’s Powell Library. Ten cents paid for 30 minutes. Bradbury wrote the book in 9 days. |
All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
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dystopia
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noun. a society characterized by oppression, de-humanization and overbearing government control.
Used in a sentence: Some would argue we are living in a dystopia today.
Bradbury never owned a driver’s license and preferred taking public transportation.
Bradbury’s Brilliant Brevity (Short Stories)
| "Marionette’s, Inc." | A man brags to his buddies that he has purchased a robot in his likeness to take care of his wife so he can leave her. When he changes his mind, the robot refuses to leave. |
| "The Pedestrian" | Nobody leaves their home in the evening, instead staying in to watch TV. When a man steps out to walk and think a bit he is arrested and taken to a psych ward. |
| "The Man" | Astronauts land on a planet to find a joyful population after a mysterious being visits. Some astronauts stay to learn more and live happily, while one continues in an unending pursuit of the being. |
| "The Visitor" | A telepathic teenager lands on Mars, allowing those quarantined with disease access to pleasure and escape in his thought transference. When a fight breaks out over who gets to use him he is killed. |
| "The Silent Towns" | A lonely miner left behind on Mars desperately seeks companionship. After reaching a woman on the phone he meets her and discovers she is not what he expected and flees. |
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Just a man with a brilliant imagination and deep understanding of human nature — it’s still hard to read Bradbury’s work today and not think he was some kind of clairvoyant. Evocative, lyrical and philosophical, his words on mankind’s uncertain future still resonate. Read him! |
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