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Date Posted: 01:40:58 06/10/12 Sun
Author: Tim
Subject: Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

Ray Bradbury, one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy authors of all time, recently passed away at the age of 91.

His novels include The Martian Chronicles (1950), Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Dandelion Wine (1957) and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), but he may have been best known for the hundreds of short stories he produced over many decades.

His celebrated short stories include The Lake, The Crowd, The Small Assassin, The Veldt, The Long Rain, The Illustrated Man, The Fog Horn, The Dwarf, The Pedestrian, A Sound of Thunder, The Rocket, I Sing the Body Electric and many many more.

Much of his work inspired film and television adaptations, including the movies The Illustrated Man (1969) and Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

One of the most acclaimed film versions of his work was Fahrenheit 451 (1966), directed by Francois Truffaut.

His short story I Sing the Body Electric was produced as an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1962.

The Ray Bradbury Theater was an anthology series first seen on HBO (1985-1986) and later on the USA Network (1988-1992).
Bradbury served as the host of the series, and introduced the individual stories during the program's initial season. In all 65 episodes were produced.

Bradbury contributed to the screenplays for It Came from Outer Space (1953) and Moby Dick (1956).

As a youngster he read the science fiction pulp magazines and collected the adventures of Flash Gordon in comic strip form.

Ray Bradbury was an avid supporter of books, libraries and space travel.

Tim

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