Ray Bradbury dead at 91

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ray-bradbury-20120607,0,5622415.story

As influenced by George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare as he was by Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Bradbury was an expert of the taut tale, the last-sentence twist. And he was more celebrated for short fiction than his longer works.

"It's telling that we read Bradbury for his short stories," said Benford. "They are glimpses. The most important thing about writers is how they exist in our memories. Having read Bradbury is like having seen a striking glimpse out of a car window and then being whisked away."

An example is from 1957's "Dandelion Wine":

"The sidewalks were haunted by dust ghosts all night as the furnace wind summoned them up, swung them about and gentled them down in a warm spice on the lawns. Trees, shaken by the footsteps of late-night strollers, sifted avalanches of dust. From midnight on, it seemed a volcano beyond the town was showering red-hot ashes everywhere, crusting slumberless night watchman and irritable dogs. Each house was a yellow attic smoldering with spontaneous combustion at three in the morning."

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

R.I.P.

Just finished reading Fahrenheit 451 a few weeks ago.

[muon2]

The last of my childhood ABC's to pass. Asimov, Bradbury and Clarke.

[homelycooking]

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Thank you, Mr Bradbury, for sharing your wondrous imagination and great artistry with us humans.

[politicus]

He had a full life, but still sad that one of the truly great story tellers are no longer with us.

[Joe Republic]

Fahrenheit 451

Ah, I knew I recognized the name!  RIP

[Tender Branson]

RIP

I have Fahrenheit at home, so I will probably read it once again. It's a short book anyway.

[muon2]

I was more a fan of the Martian Chronicles. His short fiction had a number of great plot twists, and if you go back and read the Chronicles you get a sense of the fear and foreboding of nuclear war at the dawn of the nuclear age.

[Velasco]

Sad news. I read Farenheit 451 years ago. I think it`s still at home.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Late, but RIP

[ask_not]

his worls i like are the martian chronicles and farenheit.