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Title: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: trekgeezer on June 06, 2012, 09:51:34 AM
Ray Bradbury has died at age 91.   Another Golden ager gone, what a shame.

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_20794791/martian-chronicles-author-ray-bradbury-dies-at-age


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: indianasmith on June 06, 2012, 09:54:41 AM
What a shame!  The man was one of the last survivors of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Psycho Circus on June 06, 2012, 09:55:33 AM
Awww, darn it! RIP Ray  :bluesad:


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Warp Ninja X on June 06, 2012, 11:24:46 AM
I still remember reading some his stories in school though out my school years. R.I.P. Mr. Bradbury.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: JoeTheDestroyer on June 06, 2012, 12:18:50 PM
RIP Ray  :bluesad:


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: tracy on June 06, 2012, 12:20:02 PM
Another sad loss....what a talent! One of my favorites...

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Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Pacman000 on June 06, 2012, 12:39:16 PM
This is a sad day.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: alandhopewell on June 06, 2012, 12:48:18 PM
    Another spiritual father to my personal dreamtime gone...."The Foghorn" still makes me want to cry.

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Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Raffine on June 06, 2012, 04:05:40 PM
I'm sure he's enjoying a class of Dandelion Wine with his old pal Forry Ackerman.

R.I.P., Mr. Bradbury.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Andrew on June 06, 2012, 04:47:39 PM
First discovered Mr. Bradbury via a worn paperback of "The Martian Chronicles" that was hidden on our bookshelves.  No idea where it came from, as nobody in the house read science fiction, but I loved it.  As a teenager I read through his works, and have revisited them in the last few years.  They are still great, and I keep finding new pieces in them that I'd missed before.

RIP, Mr. Bradbury, and thanks for all the stories.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: RCMerchant on June 06, 2012, 05:22:31 PM
When I was a kid,I joined the Science Fiction Bookclub-one of my first orders was this book-the exact dust jacket too-

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I think I was 11 years old.

I read everything I could by him-the Martian Chronicles,Fahrenhiet 451,Dandolion Wine-ALL of it!
Bradbury got me into sci-fi novels. I discovered Lovecraft,Assimov,Heinlen,Clark,Pohl-so many others.

Now I'm 49 years YOUNG-thanks to people like Ray Bradbury.

Rest easy.


(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/novelas_pantalla450224.jpg)

Ray Bradbury (holding skull) and FJA circa 1938 in costumes made by pal Ray Harryhausen


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: WingedSerpent on June 06, 2012, 08:21:11 PM
Shame. I was introduced to Bradbury by an X-Files Comic that had three of his short stories adapted in it. He was also a life long friend of Ray Harryhausen. Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is based off of The Foghorn.   


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Criswell on June 07, 2012, 12:58:10 AM
He did so much for Sci-Fi, Monster movies likely would of never been what they are now if not for "The Foghorn" which inspired "Beast From 20000 Fathoms", which pretty much launched the Atomic age monster movie.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 07, 2012, 09:26:01 AM
"Mars is Heaven!"  (We can only hope.)  Good night RAY.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: JaseSF on June 09, 2012, 05:04:10 PM
 :bluesad: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury. And thank you for helping spark my imagination with wonder from the smallest things to the largest, from small towns to other worlds and helping build in me a life long fascination for all things fantastic. Probably my favourite writer and no doubt a fave for many others, you will be greatly missed.


Title: Re: RIP Ray bradbury
Post by: Nakuyabi on June 09, 2012, 05:45:12 PM
And here's a nice eulogy (http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/302032) from Orson Scott Card, another science fiction author inspired by his brilliant work.