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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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I grew up on sci-fi and Bradbury featured prominently on my bookshelf. Sad loss.
I think a nice gesture would be to name something on Mars after Ray when the currently en-route NASA craft touches down in August. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Guy,
He was an amazing writer. Heck, they ought to rename the whole damn planet (.i.e. Mars) after him
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John |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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I heard that he refused to use planes to get around. And did not have a car. Can anyone (JohnSlat ?) confirm that ?
May his memory be eternal ! |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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He refused to let his books be published in e-format for a long time, calling the Internet a thing in the air that wasn't real. He relented finally on that issue on a book contract. |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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From an interview with Playboy, about 15 years ago:
"P: That's easy for you to say; you have never driven a car.
B: Not a day in my life.
P: Why not?
B: When I was 16, I saw six people die horribly in an accident. I walked home holding on to walls and trees. It took me months to being to function again. So I don't drive. But whether I drive or not is irrelevant. The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do. More than 50,000 people will die this year because of them and nobody seems to notice.
P: Until recently, you were the futurist afraid to fly in airplanes, never mind spaceships. What was it that cured your phobia?
B: A car breaking down in so many small Southern towns and the chauffeur taking three miserable days just to get through Florida. After the second tire blew, I got the word. In a loud and clear voice from the heavens above I heard the message: Fly, dummy, fly! [Laughs] I was afraid for 40 years that I'd run around the plane yelling, "Stop! Let me off!" But I fly all the time now. I just sit back relaxed, occasionally peep out the window and peruse the magazines."
http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_playboy.html
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John |
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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:17 am Post subject: |
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Ach! I knew today had bad vibes, now I know why.
Bradbury's influence was immense. |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:07 am Post subject: |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18345158
Faherenheit 451. A great warning against the Capitalist Piggies' plot to turn us into more helpless slaves than we are already today. But these days it isn't about actually burning books. Too obviously Germanic. No, it's more insidious than that. Get the masses to buy E-readers! Nobody will have a physical manuscript in the future - all texts will be in the Cloud. Easily manipulated or deleted. Penmanship? Lose that by getting people totally dependent on keyboards - which can be turned off at will by the Piggie police.
Talk about buying your own chains for the benefit of your gaoler! |
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Captain_Fil
Joined: 06 Jan 2011 Posts: 604 Location: California - the land of fruits and nuts
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 9:55 am Post subject: |
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I only read one of his books, "The Martian Chronicles" (back in junior high).
I only saw one of his movies, "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (at a theatre in Chicago in 1983).
I only saw him once in person (at a bookstore in Concord, California).
Now I want to read more of his books and watch more of his movies.
RIP, Ray Bradbury.
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:15 am Post subject: |
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I posted this news on another forum
www.mybulgaria.info
and got this reponse
''Who was he? Did he have a username on here?'
You see Fahrenheit 451 had more than a grain of truth in it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Scot47, you are making me weep here. Need to drown my sorrows in dandelion vodka... |
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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
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John |
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scot47
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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It worked. They have stopped reading books. |
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