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Ray Bradbury <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>  Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1930s, he fell in with science fiction fandom, meeting future luminaries such as Ray Harryhausen and Forrest J Ackerman. He published a fanzine called Futuria Fantasia. His early work was mostly fantasy and horror, as collected in his first book, Dark Carnival (1947). In 1950, he published his second and, at least for SF fans, most famous work, The Martian Chronicles, a collection of linked short stories about the rise and fall of human colonies on Mars. These pieces are signature Bradbury: poetic, moody, and nostalgic. His first novel, Fahrenheit 451 (1966), also much acclaimed, is set in a world where reading is forbidden, and Firemen are dispatched to burn books whenever they are found. Bradbury mostly sticks to the short story form. Other prominent collections include The Illustrated Man (1951) and The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953). Bradbury is also well-regarded in the mainstream literature world, and in some ways it’s misleading to think of him as a science fiction writer, even though he often employs SF elements to tell his tales. In the 1980s, he turned to crime fiction, of which Death is a Lonely Business (1985) is one notable work. His work has been adapted into a number of films, such as It Came from Outer Space (1953) and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953). In 1985, there was a short-lived TV series based on his work, Ray Bradbury Theatre. He is also a screenwriter, having scripted 1956’s Moby Dick, among others.
Chronological Book ListBOOKS BY RAY BRADBURY (chronological order/US publications) (includes story collections, novels, verse, plays) 1. 1947 DARK CARNIVAL
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