Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Fahrenheit 451

  • Writer Ray Bradbury in his Beverly Hills, Calif., office in February 1982. Ray Bradburys science-fiction and fantasy stories helped establish those pulp-magazine genres as literature, and his novel Fahrenheit 451 became a dystopian classic.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • The nature of science fiction has always been thus: no matter how far ahead authors try to think, they are always trapped in their own times. Elements of their books will invariably look dated from the moment they are published.
  • (Mashable)
  • LOS ANGELES - Ray Bradbury anticipated iPods, interactive television, electronic surveillance and live, sensational media events, including televised police pursuits — and not necessarily as good things.
  • (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
  • Some key dates from the life and work of Ray Bradbury: 1920: Ray Douglas Bradbury is born Aug. 22 in Waukegan, Ill. 1934: Bradburys family moves to Los Angeles.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • 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.
  • (Daily Mail)
  • Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury, one of the world's leading writers of the genre for more than 60 years, died on Wednesday at the age of 91.
  • (CNN Money)
  • He died Tuesday night, his daughter said Wednesday. Alexandra Bradbury did not have additional details.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • LOS ANGELES: Ray Bradbury, the science fiction master who transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters and the high-tech, bookburning future of Fahrenheit 451, has died. He was 91.
  • (Times of India)

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