Ray Bradbury
"Ray Bradbury is one of the immortals among us, whose classic works of science fiction, fantasy and horror will be read a thousand years from now by our descendents and the relatives alike of the planets of a thousand distant stars." ( Dragon*con, website). He's won many awards for his writings and lectures, and I have no doubt in my mind that his writings will live on forever. "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porc
In 1945 his short story "The Big Black and White Game" was selected for Best American Short Stories. In 1932, after his father was laid off from his job as a telephone lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson but again returned to Waukegan the following year. Ray Bradbury's writing has been honored in many ways, but perhaps the most unusual was when an Apollo astronaut named the Dandelion Crater on the Moon after Bradbury's novel, Dandelion Wine. By 1931 Ray had begun writing his own stories on butcher paper. (Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles 45)As much a work of social criticism as of science fiction, The Martian Chronicles reflects some of the prevailing anxieties of America in the early atomic age of the 1950's: the fear of nuclear war, the longing for a simpler life, reactions against racism and censorship, and fear of foreign political powers. Ray Bradbury is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California. The Catcher in the Rye, Ballabtine, Copyright 1985 Cashman, Paul. Outside of his literary achievements, Ray Bradbury was the idea consultant and wrote the basic scenario for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. "I thought that this novel exercised great social commentary on society as a whole". Bradbury's first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma," printed in 1938 in Imagination!, an amateur fan magazine. Resisting a totalitarian state which burns all the books, a group of rebels memorize entire works of literature and philosophy. In 1947 Bradbury married 03Marguerite McClure, and that same year he gathered much of his best material and published them as Dark Carnival, his first short story collection.
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