Subdeacon Joe Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 One of the most influential authors of our era Another great one gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 One of the most OVERRATED authors of all time. Couldn't hold a candle to the REAL science fiction writers, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 IMO a hell of a writer. RIP Ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 A truly great writer, as well as a most entertaining one. I always learned something when I read one of his books or short stories. I also found myself thinking about things a lot more than I usually did after reading his work RIP, Ray - you will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Branch Louie Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Read some great stuff from him coming up, one of my favorites was " Illustrated Man".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 One of the most OVERRATED authors of all time. Couldn't hold a candle to the REAL science fiction writers, IMO. There's a kernel of truth here. Bradbury was a very good writer, but he never really was a science fiction writer in any usual sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Exactly! I've never been big on Fantasy, which was what he wrote, I think. Calling him a SF writer always bothered me. Usually by media types who don't know squat about EITHER! Probably the same bozos who called the BeeGees a "dico group" when Robin Gibb recently died. Showed they didn't really know who they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Mushman Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 One of two writers who led me into SF and fantasy reading.....for a lifetime. God Speed Ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The O'Meara Himself Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 If Farenheit 451 isn't science fiction then nothing is. Bradbury was not only my favorite writer since I was 12, but his work was true "literature" + molded my little brain along with Heinlein. Asimov, Thoedore Sturgeon, Paol Anderson, Alfred Bester Zane Grey and others. The O'Meara Himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 If Farenheit 451 isn't science fiction then nothing is. Bradbury was not only my favorite writer since I was 12, but his work was true "literature" + molded my little brain along with Heinlein. Asimov, Thoedore Sturgeon, Paol Anderson, Alfred Bester Zane Grey and others. The O'Meara Himself Those guys molded my little brain, too (except for Zane Grey, who I never read 'til I was older), but I'd have to throw in Edgar Rice Burroughs, who topped them all when I was in my early teens. It's certainly on the mark to call Bradbury an SF writer, especially since he led a lot of people to SF, but he got out of the genre a very long time ago. His great talent as a writer was the creating of a powerful mood or atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 I'm comfortable with labeling Bradbury a Speculative Fiction writer..if labels are important to some people. Being a simple man I tend to lump writers into just three types: Story tellers Chroniclers Poets Some are all three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Rick, SASS # 172 Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 With Mr. Bradbury's death, the A,B,C's of science fiction, as I learned them have passed. He joins Asimov and Arthur C Clark and brings to close an era. God speed and rest in peace. Ranger (whose heros are all dying off) Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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