Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Ray bradbury

  • Ray Bradbury, the prolific science fiction and fantasy writer who mixed social commentary with warnings about modern technology's dark side in short stories and novels such as "Fahrenheit 451," has died. He was 91.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • LOS ANGELES -- Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91.
  • (Miami Herald)
  • LOS ANGELES — Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw.
  • (Washington Times)
  • Its common knowledge that science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who died Tuesday at age 91, was an inspiration to writers and filmmakers, both of whom used his remarkable ideas as rocket boosters to propel their imaginations.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • Ray Bradbury, the Pulitzer Prize-cited sci-fi scribe who penned Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, died Tuesday night at 91. And he wouldnt have wanted you to blog, Tweet, or Facebook about his death -- just like were doing right now.
  • (Village Voice (blog))
  • Ray Bradbury's metaphysical thoughts about mortality — "May I Die Before My Voices" — were posted on the Waukegan Public Library's home page on Wednesday: "My voices are still speaking, and I am still listening and taking their wild advice.
  • (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • (CBS/AP) Ray Bradbury, the writer best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, died Tuesday night in Los Angeles. He was 91.
  • (CBS News)
  • 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.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything.
  • (Time)
  • The history books say that Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, but the history books are wrong. It was Ray Bradbury. And unlike Gagarin, he took the rest of us along for the ride.
  • (Orlando Sentinel)

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