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Ray Bradbury Dead in California

ercoerco Posts: 20,259
edited 2012-06-11 00:32 in General Discussion
He provided inspiration to so many of us.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/story/2012-06-06/ray-bradbury-dies/55417888/1

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  • Jen J.Jen J. Posts: 649
    edited 2012-06-06 08:48
    One of my favorite authors of one of my favorite books.
    RIP Ray Bradbury.

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  • hover1hover1 Posts: 1,929
    edited 2012-06-06 09:00
    Jen J. wrote: »
    One of my favorite authors of one of my favorite books.
    RIP Ray Bradbury.

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    One of my favorite books also. That one got me hooked on Ray.

    Heard to news on the radio a little while ago. Dennis Miller had high praise for him.

    Jim
  • Tom CTom C Posts: 461
    edited 2012-06-07 09:13
    I once had the privledge to hear him speak at a professional conference. He was quite entertaining and held the audience spellbound! He will definitely be missed!!
    Regards,
    TCIII
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2012-06-07 20:00
    I took a little pilgrimage down to Waukegan today on my bike in honor of Mr. Bradbury. I have the deepest respect for him, and am very thankful for his writing.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2012-06-07 20:49
    I think I have read and enjoyed just about everything he wrote. He will be missed.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-06-09 01:30
    There is a certain amount of irony that Chinese history begins with Emperor Hwang Di (Qin Shi Huang) and that he is supposed to have been the first to unite China through a certain amount of tyranny and that began with burning all the books.

    There is a saying in Chinese tradition that a good leader is right 70% of the time and one has to accept the other 30%.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Huangdi
  • frank freedmanfrank freedman Posts: 1,983
    edited 2012-06-10 20:45
    erco wrote: »
    He provided inspiration to so many of us.

    http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/story/2012-06-06/ray-bradbury-dies/55417888/1

    I doubt Ray would have understood the phrase "to think out of the box" as he would not likely recognize or acknowledge the idea of the "box". Such a treasure trove of material he left..... Hmmm, gotta dig up my copy of the Martian Chronicles...........


    FF
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-06-11 00:32
    I dearly love science fiction as it has been a back door to learning about science. If one just had to sit through rather dry and rigorous lectures from basics to advanced and only then be allowed to ponder ideas in seminar, there would be a lot less interest is science.

    Ray Bradbury claimed he was a fantasy writer, not a science fiction writer and it many ways I can see that is true. But with him, I would never have moved on to Arthur C. Clark, Heinlein, and all the rest. We see the enormous attraction of plausibility of the fantastic in Harry Potter these days. Similar things could be done with computer science to appeal to youth, or more advanced science of these times.

    One doesn't have to always write dry academic stuff to educate. Sherlock Holmes has developed modern criminology.
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