RIP: Ray Bradbury

[cartman]

The famous author passed away this morning at the age of 91.

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles (http://io9.com/5916175/rip-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles)

[Chief Rum]

Damn. Tip of the hat to one of scifi's greats.

[Rizon]

RIP

[JediKooter]

Damn. All Summer in a Day was my favorite story by him.

[chinaski]

:(

[britrock88]

Sad day.

[CrimsonFox]

one of my favorite authors of all time! :(

genius artistic scholar farseer!

[CrimsonFox]

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We're all fools...all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
-Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, No Particular Night or Morning, 1951

[CrimsonFox]

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“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.
Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

[CrimsonFox]

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that . Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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[Alf]

RIP

Now we can move his theories to ebooks

[Groundhog]

I honestly have no idea how, as a fan of science fiction, I have never read a Bradbury book. It's a shame that it takes his death to finally see me buy my first.

[Drake]

I think I've read Something Wicked This Way Comes like 30 times. It's one of the most perfect novels ever written.

Damn it.