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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[filkferengi]

I still have & enjoy that anthology; thanks for reminding me of it.

[nimitzbrood]

Moundshroud finally came to collect.

He will be missed. He is one of the few that I would have gladly given one "burnt out candle year from the end of your life" to keep around and young were it possible.

[batyatoon]

That was my thought.

Dammit.

[snobahr]

We read Farenheit 451 in my 7th grade English class, and it freaked a bunch of kids out (myself included). I didn't hear about Bradbury's passing until lunch, and I started crying at the table in the restaurant. Just 2 weeks ago, we were talking about joining LASFS, since hubby and I have been attending LOSCON for ages and I grew up going to the Second Sunday gaming days there through high school.
Bradbury's worlds were dark, but this one is darker with his passing.

[misterseth]

My favorites have been, The Pedestrian, The Flying Machine, There Will Come Soft Rains, 'A Sound of Thunder' and many others.
Earlier, I created a collage/homage of images from this works. You can see it here: http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=5&offset=96#/d52o0xq

[gardnerhill]

I loved his stories about Mexico and Dia de los Muertos (especially the non-supernatural tale of the man who keeps providing for his family after his death), and the goofy defiance in his Irish story "The Anthem Sprinters."

The only one I ever got autographed, though, out of my collection, was The Martian Chronicles. As I got the opportunity once to tell him, that was the book that taught me that SF could be poetry and not just wheels and gears.