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R.I.P. Ray Bradbury.
Say hi to Poe for me. :'(

No other writer has had quite the same impact on me as Ray Bradbury. I found a kindred spirit in his stories; another with a firm belief that innocence and weakness are not the same. That when the monsters are real, that also means they can be slain. That the best thing to do when face to face with the abyss is to laugh at its absurd claims that the world we perceive is all that there is. And that the true measure of a life is what it leaves behind.

And what he has left behind is a lifetime of creation: novels like Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Fahrenheit 451 that helped shatter the artificial barriers between SciFi, Fantasy, and High Literature.
Countless short stories that say more in a handful of pages than most authors can in their entire careers; stories like The Fog Horn, The Murderer(Written before the smartphone, predicting what a lot of people would like to do with them :XD:), The Flying Machine, The Toyenbee Convector, A Sound of Thunder (It was just a butterfly I stepped on...one butterfly couldn't be that important...sound familiar now?),Powerhouse, Frost and Fire...

He wove these pocket-sized masterpieces together into connected anthologies like The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, October Country, Dandelion Wine, When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, A Medicine For Melencholy...the list goes on and on.

The typewriter may be empty now, but his words, and his worlds, burn on.
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Mood: Gloomy ~porcelanita Jun 7, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
beautiful words. We have lost one of the greatest indeed... here's my tribute to him: [link]
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*OddDreams101 Jun 6, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
It has been a sad last few years for scifi writers :c

All I have left now is Card and Clancy ;-;
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~Scorpion451 Jun 7, 2012   Artist
Yeah, we've lost quite a few; Kurt Vonnegut, Anne McCaffrey, Michael Crichton...
Some of the greats are still with us though: Piers Anthony, Robert Asprin(back after a long absence due to legal problems), Fredrik Pohl, Larry Niven, Stan Lee, Stephen King...
There're some new ones who have taken up the mantel in the past couple decades you might want to check out, too:
Neal Gaiman, William Gibson, Alister Reynolds, Greg Bear, George R.R. Martin (yep, he does awesome scifi too: check out Tuf Voyaging)
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*OddDreams101 Jun 7, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
Yeah, we still have guys like Ian Douglas too. Space Marines, need I say more? XD
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