Ray Bradbury is gone.

[winterknight]

http://io9.com/5916175/rip-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles

He was amazing. I loved his writing on writing as much as his fiction, if not more. Straight-up tears at the moment.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/02/be-your-own-self-love-what-you-love.html (Ray's letter to some school children.)
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/09/i-am-not-afraid-of-robots-i-am-afraid.html (Ray tells it like it is, about humans and robots and fear.)