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Bradbury brought not alone affected eyes but arcane sensibilities to his added than 500 works appear including "Fahrenheit 451," a archetypal dystopian atypical about book censorship in a approaching society, and added favorites such as "The Illustrated Man" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
"Mr. Bradbury died peacefully, aftermost night, in Los Angeles, afterwards a continued illness," said a agent
for his publisher, HarperCollins, on Wednesday.
As a science fiction writer, Bradbury said he did not demand to adumbrate the approaching -- but sometimes capital to anticipate it. Such was the case with "Fahrenheit 451," a book appear in 1953 about a totalitarian, anti-intellectual association area banned books are austere by "firemen." The appellation refers to the temperature at which cardboard ignites.
The novel, which Bradbury wrote on a busy typewriter at the UCLA library, featured a apple that ability complete accustomed to 21st aeon readers -- wall-sized alternate televisions, earpiece advice systems, all-knowing announcement and political correctness.
"In science fiction, we dream," he told The New York Times. "In adjustment to arrive in space, to clean our cities ... to accouterment any cardinal of problems, we charge brainstorm the future, including the new technologies that are appropriate ...
"Science fiction is additionally a abundant way to pretend you are autograph about the approaching aback in absoluteness you are advancing the contempo accomplished and the present."
INTERNET A SCAM
But for a futurist, Bradbury did not consistently embrace technology. He alleged the Internet a betray perpetrated by computer companies, was aloof of automated teller machines and denounced video amateur as "a decay of time for men with annihilation abroad to do."
He said he never abstruse to drive a car afterwards witnessing an blow that dead several bodies and did not biking by aeroplane until abundant afterwards in life.
Bradbury was built-in in Waukegan, Illinois, and confused to Los Angeles as a jailbait as his ancestor approved assignment during the Depression. He roller-skated about Hollywood, block celebrities for autographs, and was acerb afflicted by the science fiction works of "Tarzan" architect Edgar Rice Burroughs.
He did not go to college, instead educating himself by spending hours account in libraries, and began autograph for lurid magazines. In 1950 Bradbury appear "The Martian Chronicles" -- a account of Earthlings beat a afflicted planet and their conflicts with association on Mars. It was accustomed a aglow analysis by affecting analyzer Christopher Isherwood, which Bradbury accustomed with ablution his career.
Isherwood was amid the aboriginal to agenda the affection autograph in Bradbury's work, which brought him arcane believability and new account to the science fiction and fantasy genres.
Like "The Illustrated Man," addition of his best-known works, "The Martian Chronicles" was a accumulating of accompanying stories.
In a career spanning added than seventy years, added acclaimed titles accommodate "Dandelion Wine," "I Sing the Anatomy Electric" and "From the Dust Returned" and he wrote hundreds of abbreviate belief as able-bodied as abundant poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays and screenplays.
LECTURED AT NASA
"Fahrenheit 451" was fabricated into a cine by French administrator Francois Truffaut while Bradbury wrote the cine adjustment of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and "The Martian Chronicles" became a television mini-series. He additionally wrote the cine for John Huston's 1956 blur adjustment of "Moby Dick."
Because of his abstracted thinking, NASA brought Bradbury in to address astronauts, Disney consulted with him while designing its affected Epcot Center in Florida and arcade capital developers approved his input.
He was awarded the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Appropriate Citation. He won an Emmy Accolade for his teleplay adjustment of his 1972 novel, "The Halloween Tree."
Bradbury, who suffered a achievement in 1999 and concluded up application a wheelchair, and his wife, Maggie, who died in 2003, had four children.
"His bequest lives on in his awe-inspiring anatomy of books, film, television and theater, but added importantly, in the minds and hearts of anyone who apprehend him, because to apprehend him was to apperceive him. He was the better kid I know," his grandson, Danny Karapetian, told sci-fi website io9.com.
Other tributes began cloudburst in from adolescent authors and admirers on Twitter such as sci-fi columnist Paul McAuley, who said Bradbury "scared and abashed my adolescence self, and alchemized lurid SF into abstract but never forgot its roots."
Bradbury had a allotment appear in The New Yorker this anniversary in which he said he began to apprehend sci-fi annual aback he was 7 or 8 years old.
"When I attending aback now, I apprehend what a balloon I charge accept been to my accompany and relatives," he said. "It was one aberration afterwards one bliss afterwards one activity afterwards one agitation afterwards another. I was consistently babble and active somewhere, because I was abashed activity was activity to be over that actual afternoon."
Even in his afterwards years he admired to address circadian -- whether it was a novel, a abbreviate story, a cine or a poem.
"The abundant fun in my activity has been accepting up every morning and hasty to the typewriter because some new abstraction has hit me," he said on his 80th birthday.
Following are some key facts about Bradbury:
- Bradbury was built-in in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920 and confused to Los Angeles as a teenager. He did not go to academy but accomplished himself by spending hours account in accessible libraries, and was heavily afflicted by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H.G. Wells.
- His best acclaimed assignment "Fahrenheit 451" was accounting on a busy typewriter at the UCLA library and appear in 1953.
- Added works included "The Martian Chronicles", "The Illustrated Man", "Something Wicked This Way Comes", "Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer," and abundant abbreviate stories.
- Bradbury awful actuality labeled a science fiction writer, adage that "Fahrenheit 451" was based on reality.
- Many of his abbreviate belief and novels were angry into movies and TV shows or acclimatized for the stage, earning him a brilliant on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and an Emmy accolade in 1994 for the cine of "The Halloween Tree."
- Added awards included the National Medal of Arts, a 2007 appropriate commendation from the Pulitzer Board, and an asteroid apparent in 1992 was called "9766 Bradbury" in his honor.
Following is a alternative of Bradbury's notable novels and collections of abbreviate belief over the advance of his career:
- "Dark Carnival," appear in 1947
- "The Martian Chronicles," appear in 1950
- "The Illustrated Man," appear in 1951
- "Fahrenheit 451," appear in 1953
- "Dandelion Wine," appear in 1957
- "Something Wicked This Way Comes," appear in 1962
- "I Sing The Anatomy Electric," appear in 1969
- "The Halloween Tree," appear in 1972
- "Death Is A Lonely Business," appear in 1985
- "A Graveyard For Lunatics," appear in 1990
- "From The Dust Returned," appear in 2001
- "Let's All Kill Constance," appear in 2002
- "Farewell Summer," appear in 2006
- "Now And Forever," appear in 2007
- "We'll Consistently Accept Paris: Stories," appear in 2009
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