Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Happy Birthday, Ray

Ray Bradbury with autographed edition of AiF
Ray Bradbury would have been 92 if he had lived just a couple more months. He's missed.

"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."

"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."

"First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal. So Martian Chronicles is not science fiction, it's fantasy. It couldn't happen, you see? That's the reason it's going to be around a long time—because it's a Greek myth, and myths have staying power."

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."


The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, and (my favorite) Something Wicked This Way Comes, and all those wonderful short stories. Thank you, Ray, and have a wonderful day!

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1 Comments:

At 12:44 PM, August 22, 2012 Anonymous Kathie had this to say...

I'm glad you selected the library quote, because Bradbury contended that "Fahrenheit 451" (written in the early 1950s) was never about censorship nor Joe McCarthy, but about people abandoning books for TV:
http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted

 

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