On Tuesday, the world lost pioneering science fiction author Ray Bradbury at age 91, and since then everybody and their mother has (quite correctly, in my view) been making all sorts of bereaved noises about his passing being a tremendous loss not just to our ghettoized little genre of science fiction but to literature and the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Fahrenheit 451’
Ray Bradbury: What We Really Lost
Posted: 10th June 2012 by Brian in Science FictionTags: Fahrenheit 451, Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
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When Fiction Becomes Reality
Posted: 29th November 2011 by J. Marcus in NewsTags: Books, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
It can be cliche, but it’s oh so true. It’s becoming more and more commonplace for reality to become fiction. Witness the props of STAR TREK, or the futuristic inventions imagined by H.G. Wells. The latest example comes from none other than Ray Bradbury, arguably one of the finest Science Fiction writers to date. It […]