Good night, Mr. Bradbury

[Ebony]

Ray Bradbury has died.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[Logan Darklighter]

I can't think of anything to say, really. He was always on the periphery of my sci-fi experience. I know I've read a couple of his early books. Including some, but not all of The Martian Chronicles. But I know his works better from the TV and film adaptations. But always - always - respected him highly. 

Was reading the article above and scanned the comments and this jumped out:   

dannala1 at 10:49 AM June 06, 2012My first experience with Ray Bradbury. I am around six years old, laying down in the back of the station wagon on a six hour drive to our camping spot. My sister reads the Illustrated Man to us as we ride and my imagination runs wild. By the time I was 13 I had that book memorized and had read many others. I will never forget as I finished my book report where I had to stand in front of the class, my teacher saying that was the best book report he had every heard in his career. That I had made that book come alive and I did not even need notes. I smiled to myself because he had no idea I had lived inside that book since I was six.

I met Ray while in college and told him about that experience, he laughed then. I met him a few years ago at a bookstore in Westwood and he remembered me and that time. I have almost every book he was written and he had a powerful influence on my life and my imagination which is wild.

I teach animation now and use all that he shared in how to tell a viable story that takes you for a run until you are almost out of breath.
I've loved him since i was six and I am now fifty-six. Rest in peace Ray.....you made a difference.

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What more can one add?

-Logan
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"We are the Martians, now."
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[DHBirr]

I'm trying to tell myself I'm not surprised. I'm trying to tell myself there're plenty of newer authors still around -- Taylor Anderson, Steven Brust, Lois Bujold, C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Eric Flint, John Hemry (aka Jack Campbell), Mercedes Lackey, to name just a few (in alphabetical order). I'm even trying to remind myself that Bradbury was never one of my favorites.
And it doesn't do a damned bit of good.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Black Aeronaut]

Aw man... There goes another one I'll never get to meet in person.

[Bob Schroeck]

And thus passes the last of the Golden Age masters...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[DHBirr]

And thus passes the last of the Golden Age masters...

Not quite. There's still-- No, on second thought, I'm not gonna jinx him. 
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Ebony]

And thus passes the last of the Golden Age masters...

Well, there's Ellison, but I think he's too mean to die.   
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[ECSNorway]

We've lost the Holy Trinity of Sci-Fi. Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.