Legion connection: He was good friends with Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett. I believe he may have been best man at their wedding (or perhaps gave her away?).
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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General DC connection: Julie Scwhartz was a good friend of his too, and at one time I believe his agent. Mort Weisenger may have been too (or Mort may have parted ways with Julie to go into comics before Bradbury hooked up with Scwhartz).
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I once read a short story by Bradbury called "Kaleidoscope." It was about men who had been in a spaceship, and the spaceship exploded. The men who survived were all in their spacesuits, all flung into space in different directions. The story is simply the conversation of men who all know that they are going to die soon. Still my favorite Bradbury story.
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-------------------- First comic books ever bought: A DC four-for-47-cents grab bag that included Adventure #331. Been addicted ever since.
From: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era | Registered: Jan 2010
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Strange. I can't seem to remember the first time that I read a Ray Bradbury story or book. It just seems like he was always there. Maybe it was the school library? I do know that before I finished high school I had read the following:
The Illustrated Man The Martian Chronicles Something Wicked This Way Comes Fahrenheit 451 Dandelion Wine R is For Rocket The Machineries of Joy
This collection of stories captured my imagination and made me feel important. I was reading "real" science fiction. He got to live a long and productive life. He always seemed like such a nice fellow in the interviews I saw or read.
Thank you, Mr. Bradbury.
-------------------- No regrets, Coyote.
From: Missouri | Registered: Oct 2003
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I never think I've read that much Bradbury til I see a list of his titles and realize I have, and really enjoyed them all. Really sad, there's so few of the classic SF writers left now.
From: Douglasville, GA | Registered: Jul 2003
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I've read quite a bit of his work and was a fan of his writing. Big loss for the sci-fi community
From: Fort McMurray | Registered: Nov 2004
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My brother and I grew up with an animated adaption of one of his books, the Halloween Tree. Bradbury narrated it, and it had Leonard Nimoy voicing Mr. Moundshroud.
We weren't devout/obsessed fans of Bradbury, but we've read his work, and he had an influence on our childhood. He was a part of our childhoods. I had to read the Martian Chronicles for sixth grade... but I never did. My mom ended up writing the essay herself.
My brother has read the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. I've seen the movie. We've also seen the film adaption of Something Wicked This Way Comes. I've read the short story "Jack-In-The-Box" just once, and the "Marionette Inc." episode of Ray Bradbury Theatre.
Downstairs in the basement, there was an old printing of "I Sing The Body Electric". I've also seen the Twilight Zone adaption of that story. I read the titular story, as well as Tomorrow's Child, the Inspired Chicken Motel, the Women, Heavy-Set, and Night Call Collect. Unfortunately, I left the book in high school chemistry class one day in summer 2006, and when I went back to get it, the book was perfectly split in half. I still have both halves in a shoe box underneath my bed.
I've recently been thinking of Bradbury. I've been hoping to finally sit down and read Martian Chronicles, but I've been stuck with Rose Madder by Stephen King. I also remember, years ago, when someone wrote a bogus wikipedia entry for Kingdom Hearts III and they said there'd be a "Something Wicked This Way Comes" world with a carousel Heartless boss. I've had that on my commission wishlist. I'll commission Viola Tanganelli to draw it in July.
My brother actually cried today when he found out. I was on my way to work when he called me.
-------------------- I want to be hated by lies - Bring Back Lian Harper
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