Ray Bradbury Passes Away at 91.

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-06-07 03:21

  Ray Bradbury, the science fiction-fantasy master who transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of Fahrenheit 451, has died. He was 91.
  
  He died Tuesday night, his daughter said Wednesday. Alexandra Bradbury did not have additional details.
  
  Although slowed in recent years by a stroke that meant he had to use a wheelchair, Bradbury remained active into his 90s, turning out new novels, plays, screenplays and a volume of poetry. He wrote every day in the basement office of his Cheviot Hills home and appeared from time to time at bookstores, public library fundraisers and other literary events around Los Angeles.
  His writings ranged from horror and mystery to humour and sympathetic stories about the Irish, blacks and Mexican-Americans. Bradbury also scripted John Huston’s 1956 film version of Moby Dick and wrote for The Twilight Zone and other television programs, including The Ray Bradbury Theater, for which he adapted dozens of his works.
  
  “What I have always been is a hybrid author,” Bradbury said in 2009. “I am completely in love with movies, and I am completely in love with theatre, and I am completely in love with libraries.”
  
  Bradbury broke through in 1950 with The Martian Chronicles, a series of intertwined stories that satirized capitalism, racism and superpower tensions as it portrayed Earth colonizers destroying an idyllic Martian civilization.
  
  Like Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End and the Robert Wise film The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bradbury’s book was a Cold War morality tale in which imagined lives on other planets serve as commentary on human behaviour on Earth. The Martian Chronicles has been published in more than 30 languages, was made into a TV miniseries and inspired a computer game.
  

  
  
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  http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/06/06/reports-ray-bradbury-dead-at-91/
  
  the cat's favorite writings by the guy were Fahrenheit 451 and "all summer in a day"
• Lolicon wrote on 2012-06-07 03:23
  Aww, that sucks, he was one of my favorites.
• MareneCorp wrote on 2012-06-07 03:23
  Fahrenheit 451 was the first book I read in my English class, it was great, Rest in peace C:
• paladin wrote on 2012-06-07 03:24
  May have not liked being forced to read 451
  Still came to respect the guys uncensored wirting
  Cold and no fluff
• Ithiliel wrote on 2012-06-07 03:44
  That's a shame =( He was a great author. At least he lived a long life, though.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-06-07 03:48
  I only read Fahrenheit 451, but if it's anything to base his other books off of, we lost a great writer.
• Sekwaf wrote on 2012-06-07 03:49
  Am I the only person who wasn't a fan of his work? Oh well, it's never good news when we lose such an influential author.
• Episkey wrote on 2012-06-07 03:58

  Quote from Sekwaf;881770:

  Am I the only person who wasn't a fan of his work? Oh well, it's never good news when we lose such an influential author.

  
  
  Most people are familiar of him through schooling in the book, Fahrenheit 451.
  
  I was intrigued by his foresight and way of explaining things - but when realizing his intentions of writing the book, it isn't as grand as I thought it was. It was still a nice intellectual stir - I was a freshman in High School, when I read Fahrenheit 451.
  
  
  In any case, how sad it is that he passed away. I was just talking about him to my family recently ...
• Rin wrote on 2012-06-07 05:39
  High school book I read (Fahrenheit 451), so yes, I know a bit of him.
  
  I can't say much about him, but sad to lose him then.
• Chillax wrote on 2012-06-07 06:24
  I don't remember much about Fahrenheit 451, since I read that almost 8 years ago, but apparently Ray Bradbury wrote it in my school's library. They'll probably have some kind of tribute over there, so I'll go take a look.