Ray Bradbury
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, iO9
“Ray Bradbury – author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and many more literary classics – died this morning in Los Angeles, at the age of 91.”
Ray Bradbury hates big government: ‘Our country is in need of a revolution, LA Times
“Ray Bradbury is mad at President Obama, but it’s not about the economy, the war or the plan to a construct a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. “He should be announcing that we should go back to the moon,” says the iconic author …. “We should never have left there. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.”
Folks:
A great man who gave his life to the pen. To call Ray Bradbury a science fiction writer is like calling Joni Mitchell a folk singer. He was all over the place in genre and media.
So, at his passing, a message of inspiration from Ray Bradbury in his own words, one… more… time.
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/B... Ray Bradbury speaks during the Viking 1 landing at JPL in 1976
tinker
Thanks Tinker. I have never read anything he wrote, but I’m at a library thinking of checking out a time machine to hear his thoughts. 🙂
In a world where so few have accurately foreseen all the consequences of our collective actions, I think Ray Bradbury had a clearer vision of the future than almost anyone else. The world is a poorer place with his passing.
Great choice of links, Keith. And thanks for your addition, Tinker.Â
If only people could “get” that the only “responsible” plan is not to extort money so a few life forms briefly survive on another world, but instead find a way to use what money we have to enable thousands and then millions to live on (and between) other worlds.Â
America should explore, develop and settle space the way we were invented ourselves, not some comfortable, risk-averse, and rice-bowl-filling way that never seems to actually get us anywhere.Â
Replicating the outward appearance of American exceptionalism is just bread and circuses, the only thing that matters is our inner core and capabilities.Â
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My libertarian streak started after reading “The Pedestrian” at age 12.
Well done, Sir, well done. RIP
If only our leaders would heed Bradbury’s words, we would be in such a precarious position were in now. No vision from narrow minded people.
Rest in peace, Ray.Â
Typo error:wouldn’t
 Bobby:
That little snippet I posted above has been a guiding light for decades for me.
BTW: You can edit posts now. Use the ‘Edit’ link on the low right of the post.
Cheers:
tinker
Folks:
Here’s the original radio broadcast containing the Ray Bradbury quote I posted above. It covers the Viking 1 landing at JPL from entry interface to first images including many science fiction writer’s and entertainer’s comments. The narrator is Jon Lomberg, artist/broadcaster, covering the Viking missions for the show ‘Ideas’ on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Recorded live from air to open reel in the late 70’s, converted to cassette in the 80’s, digitized in the 90’s, re-mastered in the ’00’s, compressed into a 7 meg mp3 this afternoon just for you folk. It’s 20 minutes long, worth a listen:
http://www.execulink.com/~tinker/V...
tinker