Ray Bradbury
Venus transited the Sun and took one of our solar system's beloved authors with her:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/ray-bradbury-popularizer-of-science-fiction-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
I don't suppose I mentioned that I recently re-read Martian Chronicles and gave a copy to Carlos, which has since been passed around the Costa Rican office to much acclaim. Books are harder to come by in CR, so I sent a hardcover copy.
The 1997 foreward to Martian Chronicles features the following story about Bradbury meeting Aldous Hudley just after its 1950 publication. "Do you know what you are?" said Huxley.
Don't tell me what I'm doing, I thought. I don't want to know.
"You are a poet," said Huxley.
"I'll be damned," I said.
"No, blessed," said Huxley.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/ray-bradbury-popularizer-of-science-fiction-dies-at-91.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
I don't suppose I mentioned that I recently re-read Martian Chronicles and gave a copy to Carlos, which has since been passed around the Costa Rican office to much acclaim. Books are harder to come by in CR, so I sent a hardcover copy.
The 1997 foreward to Martian Chronicles features the following story about Bradbury meeting Aldous Hudley just after its 1950 publication. "Do you know what you are?" said Huxley.
Don't tell me what I'm doing, I thought. I don't want to know.
"You are a poet," said Huxley.
"I'll be damned," I said.
"No, blessed," said Huxley.