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On 6 June CNN.COM wrote:Los Angeles (CNN) -- Science fiction author Ray Bradbury, whose imagination
yielded classic books such as "Fahrenheit 451," "The Martian Chronicles"
and "Something Wicked This Way Comes," has died at 91, his publisher
said Wednesday.
Bradbury "died peacefully, last night, in Los Angeles, after a lengthy illness,"
HarperCollins said in a written statement.
Bradbury's books and 600 short stories predicted a variety of things, including
the emergence of ATMs and live broadcasts of fugitive car chases.
"In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury has inspired
generations of readers to dream, think, and create," the statement said.
"A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well
as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays,
Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time."
Bradbury wrote the screenplay for John Huston's classic film adaptation
of "Moby Dick." He adapted 65 of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury
Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of "The Halloween Tree."
"In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person
staring back." he wrote in a book of essays published in 2005. "Occasionally I
wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've
worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating.
The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior."
Bradbury received the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and a 2007
Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.
Bradbury lived in Los Angeles since his family moved there from his native
Waukegan, Illinois, to look for work during the Great Depression.
He is survived by his four daughters, Susan Nixon, Ramona Ostergren,
Bettina Karapetian, and Alexandra Bradbury, and eight grandchildren.
His wife of 57 years, Marguerite, died in 2003.
The biography released by his publisher quoted a story in which Bradbury
recounted meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. Electrico touched
the 12-year-old Bradbury with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!"
"I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard," Bradbury said.
"I started writing every day. I never stopped."
Uncle Al
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Yes, just heard this today - a sad loss indeed. I am also a member of a SCI-FI web forum and they too have many commiserations and recollections.
I must re-read some of his stuff and download some ones I haven't read - seeing I now have a Kindle to store them all. Thoroughly enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 and the Martian Chronicles. I also have read the Illustrated Man and other short stories. So must look them out and read them again.
I also didn't actually realise he also wrote the screenplay for the film of Moby Dick!
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" - Joseph Goebbels
