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A comment on R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles .

Re:R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Mar... by akharris on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:41AM (#4074087)
He had a short piece in last week's New Yorker on how "The Fire Balloons" was inspired by the fire balloons he, as a small boy, lit with his grandfather. It was a beautiful testament to his craft and his inspiration.

Sadly, behind the paywall: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/04/120604fa_fact_...

RIP

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Re:R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Mar... by telcodud on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @11:57AM (#4074537)
Works for me. No longer behind the paywall?

Update: indeed, just saw this G+ post by The New Yorker: https://plus.google.com/107786469140133631773/posts/hxnZD124...

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Re:R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Mar... by farnsworth on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @01:05PM (#4074882)
Lots of his stories are inspired by his family, hometown, and they all show up here and there in his stories. I always saw him as writing humanist sci-fi.
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Re:R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Mar... by indypb on Thursday June 07, 2012 @05:57PM (#4081572)
A long interview in Paris Review from 2010: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/the-art-of-fic...
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