Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

Not without irony that his death occurred when there was a little black spot on sun yesterday.

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Brilliant writer. Too bad a lot of his stuff didn’t translate well to cinema/TV (see Illustrated Man-ick-and the badly done mini series but I thought it was cool at the time because I was 9, Martian Chronicles…as with most things the book was way better.)

@SanFranLefty:
He did, but the only ep he wrote that aired wasn’t considered one of the Twilight Zone’s best.

Fahrenheit is probably what goes in the one-line bio, but Martian Chronicles was poetry to this teenager.

@ManchuCandidate: I didn’t get the gag the first time I saw it, but Truffaut’s Fahrenheit has no written credits. They’re all announced.

@nojo: Martian Chronicles are what hooked me, but Fahrenheit is just a notch below 1984 for dystopian fiction. It also made a pretty good movie.

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