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    The BBC News site is reporting the death of Ray Bradbury

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18345350

    Fahrenheit 451 is a favourite of mine, though I haven't read the book in a very long time.

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    Please R.I.P. Ray.


    Alan French.

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    Senior Member Country: UK Mr Sloane's Avatar
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    A great story teller, I love Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451 but his greatest talent was as a short story writer. His stories intelligent, thought provoking and superbly readable.

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    this is from the Guardian.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...fi-author-dies

    I did like the comment from RonJB - "What temperature do Kindles burn at?

    Nick

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    Another great collection of short stories was "The Illustrated Man"

    RIP Ray

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    The full obituary from the Guardian.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...6/ray-bradbury

    Nick

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Sloane View Post
    A great story teller, I love Something Wicked This Way Comes and Fahrenheit 451 but his greatest talent was as a short story writer. His stories intelligent, thought provoking and superbly readable.
    Absolutely - a master of a very difficult genre.

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    This is a very sad news, he is the screenwriter of Moby Dick and narrated his encounter with John Huston in Ireland in the very good and very funny Green Shadows, White Whale, last part of his trilogy on Hollywood started with the two mysteries (hommage to the film noir style) Death is a Lonely Business and A Graveyard for Lunatics
    I discovered recently Jack Clayton's Something Wicked this Way Comes, adapted from his book, a true weird film in the context of a Disney production, I think there's also a TV series that adapted the book, and in a sort of way, the Vampire Circus by Robert Young...

    Ray Bradbury
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    A wonderful, magical writer. Dandelion Wine was superb and The October Game may be my favourite short story...

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    Another loss of talent R.I.P. chap

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    A short series of clips from the Beeb

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18345158

    Nick

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    I only recently got a Sixties edition of The Golden Apples of the Sun.

    Some of the tales were just extreme bananas fantasy but others were stunning in their cleverness, like the ones he did about Chinese emperors suppressing the invention of the typewriter/computer and in The Pedestrian, he had his character arrested by the police for walking the steets at night because proper law-abiding members of society do not walk alone and at night, do they. I must have read some of his stories in SF collections as a kid because some seemed familiar, but that may just have been his influence. In more recent years I took an especial interest in his story, "The Greatest Man in The World".

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    Yes sad news indeed.

    R I P Sir.

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    I have never read any of his works - but I loved "The Martian Chronicals" when it was televised, and was delighted when it was released on DVD.

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    A great writer. I too enjoyed "The Martian Chronicles" ( although Ray Bradbury himself is quoted as finding the mini series boring).

    R.I.P. Sir & thank you!

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