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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[james_the_evil1]

"The Veldt" and "Fahrenheit 451" had huge effects on my life.

[starmalachite]

Years ago, my mother said to me, "Bad enough you keep going to those conventions. Why do you have to work on them, too?"

I replied, "Because I get to do things like walk up to an author I've been reading since I was 8 & say, 'Mr. Bradbury, I'm the room manager for your 2PM panel. If you're ready, would you come with me, please?' and have a lovely private conversation on the way."

She didn't really get it, but she conceded that that was worth some personal inconvenience.

Thank you for everything, Mr. Bradbury. Especially that chat.

[batyatoon]

I can't believe I'm the first person to mention "Downwind from Gettysburg."

That was the story that made me cry when I was fifteen years old, partly because the story is heartbreaking and partly from a bone-deep conviction that I would never ever be able to write anything that good, not in a million years.

Rest well, Mr. Bradbury.

[full_metal_ox]

A personal favorite of mine is "Homecoming", which I've come to associate with Shriekback's Gothic dance-floor classic "Nemesis".

(And, as (A) an adoptee of (B) proto-Gothic pretensions, there was a point in my life when it amused me to imagine that Timothy was the kid my family was supposed to have been assigned...)