Ray Bradbury passes at 91.

Sci/fI author Ray Bradbury has passed away at 91.
He is most often known for 'Fahrenheit 451' and The Martian Chronicles.
I met Ray a dozen times over the years, and he was always a gentleman.

 

Sad times. I read him like crazy in high school. Love his stories.

 

I did too. F451 was the book that opened my eyes to so many things, such as censorship, social control and that knowledge is power.

 

Exactly. Though what he wrote was clearly fanciful, it was also relevant and powerful.

 

another great author passes, a moment for the man.....

 

He was one of the best !!!

His stories were great.

 

R.I.P Ray.

You lived a long life and left us all some great stories...

 

This is very sad

I just read F451 this year in English class and it was a very good book.

 

My best friend has "It was a pleasure to burn." tattooed on the inside of her right wrist; it was her favorite line from her favorite book by her favorite author. I'll be making her some consolation cookies. It's always a rough thing to find that someone who put so much good stuff into the world is never going to put any more good stuff into yours.

As my favorite artists of so many mediums fall away from this Earth, I wonder if I wasn't born later than I would have liked. It would have been nice to have a chance to meet some of these great doers and makers, rather than the paltry imposters my generation has offered up to the great potluck dinner of history. I regret never having known the man, but I take pleasure and comfort in knowing his work. He will be, and is, missed, not only for what he had created, but for all the things that he hadn't gotten around to, yet.

Thanks for everything, RB. Wish you could've stuck around longer, but thanks for the time you gave us. I hope that right now, you're experiencing worlds beyond what even you could have imagined.

 

You met him dino what a lucky ocassion. It seems like now a days the enterainment business is stricly about making money from books movies music, quite sad. F451 was one of the most eye opening books I have read to date.

 

Rays passing made both the front pages of USA Today( below the fold) and The Wall Street Journal( above the fold). Nice to see fantastic literature ( and the folks who write it) getting some respect.

 

"Nice to see fantastic literature ( and the folks who write it) getting some respect".


+1 to that, Dino.

 

David B. Coe's last Blood of the Southland series book ( The Dark Eyes War) had so many themes that paralleled how people are treated in America after 9/11 ( judging people by what ethnic group they belong to, not by WHO they are) that I was just stunned. Just because the setting ect, is fantastic, does not mean the story is without merit and value.