Saturday, July 31, 2010

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ray Bradbury

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3 comments:

Todd Mason said...

Um, no.

"5. In many ways, Bradbury was a writer of intuition. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury was the first to predict the invention of flat-screen TVs, televised surveillance footage, ear-bud headphones, and ATMs — in the space of the nine days he spent writing the novel."

This would come as news to Orwell among several others.

Later: "He doesn't edit much." Sadly evident too often from early on.

And he couldn't sell outside the sf magazines...except to WEIRD TALES, his first sustained professional market, and such crime fiction magazines as DIME MYSTERY...and...

Anonymous said...

So where are the 10 things?

Stephen B. said...

Also, actually he's 90 years young. In just about 10 days -- still living, and not sure if he's writing/dictating so many stories these days, but he's with us! [Aug 2010]