R.I.P. Ray Bradbury - GoFuckYourself.com

MediaGuy · 06-06-2012, 08:53 AM

Man this news is devastating - he's one of these people who've been around since before I was born, he was always "there" - like the sky is blue and grass is green... and he died now.

RIP RIP RIP terrible news just don't know what else to say...

:D

just a punk · 06-06-2012, 08:55 AM

He was a great science-fiction writer. Loved his books.

RIP

MaDalton · 06-06-2012, 08:57 AM

i read many of his books as a kid - RIP

DirtyDreamer · 06-06-2012, 09:27 AM

Goodnight, Ray Bradbury, and you will live forever with your books.

Choopa_Pardo · 06-06-2012, 09:28 AM

One of the all time greats.

Spunky · 06-06-2012, 09:30 AM

I liked reading his novels,RIP Mr Bradbury

2MuchMark · 06-06-2012, 09:32 AM

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
- Ray Bradbury.

Tom_PM · 06-06-2012, 09:33 AM

RIP to one of the great writers of our times.

Fetish Gimp · 06-06-2012, 09:39 AM

MediaGuy · 06-06-2012, 09:40 AM

Fuck this really sucks... it's taking a while to hit me. Some people shouldn't die, he was one.

AzteK · 06-06-2012, 10:41 AM

This is sad news and a great loss. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books.

MediaGuy · 06-06-2012, 11:59 AM

This thread does not deserve to drop off page 1 for at least 48 hours....

AsianDivaGirlsWebDude · 06-06-2012, 12:15 PM

I'm not a huge fan of science fiction, however I really enjoyed Bradbury's books as a kid.

I'm surprised to see how young he was when he wrote some of his most famous novels, and that he was a mostly self-taught writer:

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The Bradbury family lived in Tucson, Arizona, in 1926?1927 and 1932?1933 as the father pursued employment, each time returning to Waukegan, but eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1934, when Ray was thirteen.

Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles High School, where he took poetry and short story writing courses that furthered his interest in writing, but he did not attend college. Instead, he sold newspapers at the corner of South Norton Avenue and Olympic Boulevard. In regard to his education, Bradbury said:

Libraries raised me. I don?t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don?t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn?t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

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JUNE 6, 2012

Ray Bradbury, recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91 after a long illness. He lived in Los Angeles.

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award.

He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. In 2005, Bradbury published a book of essays titled Bradbury Speaks, in which he wrote:

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

He is survived by his four daughters, Susan Nixon, Ramona Ostergren, Bettina Karapetian, and Alexandra Bradbury, and eight grandchildren. His wife, Marguerite, predeceased him in 2003, after fifty-seven years of marriage.

Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, Live forever! Bradbury later said, I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Ray Bradbury, RIP

ADG

MediaGuy · 06-06-2012, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

I'm not a huge fan of science fiction, however I really enjoyed Bradbury's books as a kid.

I'm surprised to see how young he was when he wrote some of his most famous novels, and that he was a mostly self-taught writer:

Ray Bradbury, RIP

ADG

Awesome post. Thanks

Barry-xlovecam · 06-06-2012, 12:27 PM

RIP Ray, 91

Dreams of Ray Bradbury: Ten predictions that came true
http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...9IV_story.html

sperbonzo · 06-06-2012, 12:35 PM

Damn it... He was one of the good ones....

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MediaGuy · 06-06-2012, 12:41 PM

And that's what was great about Bradbury - though "technically" you could slot him as a sci-fi writer, his writing transcended all genres, from fantasy to reality, horror, whatever...

VS_Jeff · 06-06-2012, 04:05 PM

I always thought that Guy Montag was the most badass name... GG Mr. Bradbury... GG.

CDSmith · 06-06-2012, 11:38 PM

R is for rocket.
S is for space.
The Martian Chronicles.
Fahrenheit 451
The Golden Apples of the Sun
Dandelion Wine
Something Wicked This Way Comes

I grew up on that stuff. The guy broadened so many imaginations it's uncanny.

Rest in space RB.

lucas131 · 06-06-2012, 11:50 PM

oh man, mr bradbury, rest in space, i mean peace!

just a punk · 06-07-2012, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by CDSmith

R is for rocket.
S is for space.
The Martian Chronicles.
Fahrenheit 451
The Golden Apples of the Sun
Dandelion Wine
Something Wicked This Way Comes

I grew up on that stuff. The guy broadened so many imaginations it's uncanny.

Rest in space RB.

I also grew up on his books. Actually he was the most famous and respected American sci-fi writer in the USSR.

"Here there be tigers" with English subtitles:

MediaGuy · 06-07-2012, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberSEO

I also grew up on his books. Actually he was the most famous and respected American sci-fi writer in the USSR.

Wow really? How did he fare against Stanislaw Lem? He's arguably the biggest Western European sci-fi figure of all time...

:D

just a punk · 06-07-2012, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by MediaGuy

Wow really? How did he fare against Stanislaw Lem? He's arguably the biggest Western European sci-fi figure of all time...

:D

Stanislaw Lem was too, but he wasn't an American. He was from Poland (Eastern Europe). Did you check the animated video above? It was made in the USSR.

sperbonzo · 06-07-2012, 08:23 AM

Him and Robert A Heinlein were my two favorites growing up....

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CDSmith · 06-07-2012, 08:31 AM

Here There Be Tygers

Yup, another classic of his. Forgot about that one. I know I read it as a kid but I should go back and read all these again.

We took The Martian Chronicles in school, either in high school. or jr high, I forget which.

I don't forget the book though.

HammerALL · 06-07-2012, 08:34 AM

RIP Ray - still remember being introduced to him via Fahrenheit 451

Great novelist and chilling depictions of the future.

MediaGuy · 06-07-2012, 08:49 AM

He's stupendous.

He wrote a short story "A Sound of Thunder" which is the whole basis/inspiration for the butterfly effect theory, and inspired hundreds of other movies and novels I'm sure...

It inspired scientists! Chaos theorists! The guy was unbelievably influential...

Also he wrote great horror :P If you haven't read "The Small Assassin" you should - even peripherally, it inspired other great horror stories including especially Stephen King's "Pet Sematary".

We just can't stop finding seeds of awesomeness from Bradbury...

:D

Joe Obenberger · 06-07-2012, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by sperbonzo

Him and Robert A Heinlein were my two favorites growing up....

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Because I live about 10 miles from Waukegan, I probably shouldn't say this just now, but I think Heinlein is in a class that Ray Bradbury never quite reached. He was a wonderful and provocative author, but there's nothing like Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, or Stranger in a Strange Land, and the entire "alternative history" that Heinlein wove together as a unifying life's work. I didn't know that he was mainly self-educated in libraries, and that's a great tribute to what he accomplished. He'll live forever in our intellectual tradition and be most remembered for Fahrenheit 451.

MediaGuy · 06-07-2012, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Obenberger

Because I live about 10 miles from Waukegan, I probably shouldn't say this just now, but I think Heinlein is in a class that Ray Bradbury never quite reached. He was a wonderful and provocative author, but there's nothing like Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, or Stranger in a Strange Land, and the entire "alternative history" that Heinlein wove together as a unifying life's work. I didn't know that he was mainly self-educated in libraries, and that's a great tribute to what he accomplished. He'll live forever in our intellectual tradition and be most remembered for Fahrenheit 451.

Hey joe - you're right on a few things, and let's leave the Bradbury/Heinlein thing to another thread... honestly, I don't care about Joyce and other influential writers in our time. Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the most stupendous published works in terms of influence and just pleasurable reading ever (let's face it, Dubliners, Finnegan's Wake, etc are just not pleasurable reads).

Also, Jubal Hershaw is a classic character - maybe the actual main character in Stranger in a Strange Land? At any rate I believe Heinlein predicted Ken Kesey somehow years before the human actually existed. It's always freaked me out.

Still, Bradbury had more cross-spectrum influence, in my honest opinion....

:D

V_RocKs · 06-07-2012, 10:07 AM

Odd that Google news doesn't even seem to mention it.

edit: ahh.. they finally picked it up...

You'd think it would be bigger news than Miley Circus..

MediaGuy · 06-07-2012, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by V_RocKs

Odd that Google news doesn't even seem to mention it.

edit: ahh.. they finally picked it up...

You'd think it would be bigger news than Miley Circus..

Are you kidding?!? Miley, as much as I actually do apprecieate her work due to my daughters, is going to be bigger news than Bradbury at any time, unfortunately, as even she herself would acknowledge....
:D

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MediaGuy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Montrealquebecanada Posts: 5,500	And that's what was great about Bradbury - though "technically" you could slot him as a sci-fi writer, his writing transcended all genres, from fantasy to reality, horror, whatever... __________________ YOU Are Industry News! Press Releases: pr[at]payoutmag.com Facebook: Payout Magazine! Facebook: MIKEB! ICQ: 248843947 Skype: Mediaguy1

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