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To share the same
time in history
with Ray Bradbury
is like living in
the presence of
other literary legends
who charted the
realms of mystery
and imagination.
His ever-growing
body of work stands
alongside that of
Poe or Doyle or
Hawthorne.
Bradbury is a consummate
and consumed writer,
whose first collection
of short stories,
titled Dark Carnival,
was published in
1947.
Something Wicked
This Way Comes,
Fahrenheit 451 and
the Martian Chronicles
are classics of
modern fantasy,
and his many anthologies
contain hundreds
of gems of short,
dark tales of fiction.
Considering how
deliciously dark
Bradbury's imagination
can run, it's a
beautiful paradox
that he's an optimistic
spirit with a passion
to contribute to
a bright vision
of the future, expressing
that passion whenever
possible.
Bradbury has lent
his visions to projects
as grand as the
1964 World's Fair,
and installations
at Disney's Epcot
Center and Euro-Disney.
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