Farewell, Ray Bradbury

[filkertom]

Great sadness -- one of the legends has left us. Ray Bradbury has passed away at the age of 91. Thank you, sir, for all that you've left us, and all that you've inspired us to do and to be and to write.

What are some of your favorite Bradbury stories? I will always love "There Will Come Soft Rains"; "All Summer In A Day"; Something Wicked This

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[ldyerzsie]

"The Veldt", "The Murder", "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind", "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed", in addition to the stories previously mentioned. My father had a boxed set of paperbacks, and I read them at in grade school.

[hms42]

I know of a copy of Fahrenheit 451 that survived a SF library fire. (I don't think it was an asbestos copy. (Science Fiction forum, SUNY Stony Brook, NY))

I think I got to meet him once over the years. (I know I was at the same convention as him at least a couple of times.)

[ladymer]

Among the ones not listed yet- "The Exiles", "Here There Be Tygers", and, of course, "The Time Machine".

[bayushisan]

I think my favorite Bradbury short story is Usher 2. I've got copies of Something Wicked This Way Comes and the Halloween Tree that I really should get around to reading.

[smparadox]

I learned to read on Bradbury and Simak, but it took me much longer to learn to note and remember the titles and authors, so sadly I don't *know* all of my favorites. Certainly, The Illustrated Man, a short story anthology with a horror framing sequence. And he did several stories set in a dry future where humanity had outgrown humor, so the monsters and the spirits of the authors (Poe, Dickens, Shakespeare) fled to Mars that I absolutely loved - I always rooted for the horrors.