RIP, Ray Bradbury

[Tig]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/science-fiction-author-ray-bradbury-dies-144137431.html

I grew up reading his books, so he was an influence in my life.

 

[kidsmoke]

quick read, and when you realize it was written in '51, it's clear how remarkable this man was.

http://mikejmoran.typepad.com/files/pedestrian-by-bradbury-1.pdf

 

[sunvalleylaw]

He was very influential to me. I have read quite a bit. But probably the most memorable was that short story TK posted.

 

[Tig]

So I thought I knew most of his work? How wrong! :thwap Here's a partial list, excluding plays, children's books, and non-fiction:

Novels

• (1950) The Martian Chronicles
• (1953) Fahrenheit 451
• (1957) Dandelion Wine
• (1962) Something Wicked This Way Comes
• (1972) The Halloween Tree
• (1985) Death Is a Lonely Business
• (1990) A Graveyard for Lunatics
• (1992) Green Shadows, White Whale
• (2001) From the Dust Returned
• (2002) Let's All Kill Constance
• (2006) Farewell Summer

Collections

• (1947) Dark Carnival
• (1951) The Illustrated Man
• (1953) The Golden Apples of the Sun
• (1955) The October Country
• (1959) A Medicine for Melancholy
• (1959) The Day It Rained Forever
• (1962) The Small Assassin
• (1962) R is for Rocket
• (1964) The Machineries of Joy
• (1965) The Autumn People
• (1965) The Vintage Bradbury
• (1966) Tomorrow Midnight
• (1966) S is for Space
• (1966) Twice 22
• (1969) I Sing The Body Electric
• (1975) Ray Bradbury
• (1976) Long After Midnight
• (1979) The Fog Horn & Other Stories
• (1980) One Timeless Spring
• (1980) The Last Circus and the Electrocution
• (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury
• (1981) The Fog Horn and Other Stories
• (1983) Dinosaur Tales
• (1984) A Memory of Murder
• (1985) The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
• (1988) The Toynbee Convector
• (1990) Classic Stories 1
• (1990) Classic Stories 2
• (1991) The Parrot Who Met Papa
• (1991) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
• (1996) Quicker Than The Eye
• (1997) Driving Blind
• (2001) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories
• (2001) The Playground
• (2002) One More for the Road
• (2003) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
• (2003) Is That You, Herb?
• (2004) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories
• (2005) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
• (2007) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail
• (2007) Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band is Playing & Leviathan '99
• (2007) Summer Morning, Summer Night
• (2009) Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2
• (2009) We'll Always Have Paris: Stories
• (2011) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury:

Short stories

• (1938) Hollerbochen's Dilemma
• (1938) Hollerbochen Comes Back
• (1939) Don't Get Technatal
• (1939) Gold
• (1939) The Pendulum
• (1940) The Maiden of Jirbu (with Bob Tucker)
• (1940) Tale of the Tortletwitch (as Guy Amory)
• (1941) The Trouble with Humans is People
• (1941) Pendulum (with Henry Hasse)
• (1942) The Candle
• (1943) The Scythe
• (1944) The Lake
• (1945) The Watchers
• (1945) The Big Black and White Game
• (1945) Invisible Boy
• (1946) The Traveller
• (1946) Homecoming
• (1947) I See You Never
• (1947) The Small Assassin
• (1948) Mars is Heaven!
• (1948) The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
• (1949) The Exiles
• (1949) Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
• (1950) I'll Not Look For Wine
• (1950) The Veldt
• (1950) There Will Come Soft Rains
• (1950) August 2002: Night Meeting
• (1951) The Fireman
• (1951) The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
• (1951) The Pedestrian
• (1952) A Sound of Thunder
• (1952) The April Witch
• (1953) The Flying Machine (short story)
• (1953) The Meadow
• (1953) Dandelion Wine
• (1954) All Summer in a Day
• (1956) The Sound of Summer Running
• (1957) Sun and Shadow
• (1958) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
• (1959) A Medicine for Melancholy
• (1960) The Best of All Possible Worlds
• (1962) The Machineries of Joy
• (1963) Tyrranosaurus Rex
• (1964) The Cold Wind and the Warm
• (1966) The Man in the Rorschach Shirt
• (1967) The Lost City of Mars
• (1978) The Mummies of Guanajuato
• (1969) Downwind From Gettysburg
• (1979) The Aqueduct
• (1984) The Toynbee Convector
• (1988) The Dragon
• (1994) From the Dust Returned
• (2003) Is That You, Herb?
• (2009) Juggernaut

Screenplays and teleplays

• (1953) It Came from Outer Space
• (1956) Moby Dick
• Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
  • (1956) The Bullet Trick / The Marked Bullet
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  • (1956) Shopping for Death
  • (1958) Design for Loving
  • (1959) Special Delivery
  • (1962) The Faith of Aaron Menefee
• Steve Canyon
  • (1959) The Gift
• Trouble Shooters
  • (1959) The Tunnel to Yesterday
• (1961) King of Kings (narration, uncredited)
• The Twilight Zone
  • (1962) I Sing the Body Electric
• Alcoa Premiere
  • (1962) The Jail
• (1962) Icarus Montgolfier Wright
• (1963) Dial Double Zero
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  • (1964) The Life Work of Juan Diaz
• (1969) The Picasso Summer
• The Curiosity Shop
  • (1971) The Groon
• (1979) Gnomes
• (1982) The Electric Grandmother
• (1983) Something Wicked This Way Comes
• (1983) Quest
• (1985-1992) The Ray Bradbury Theater
• The Twilight Zone
  • (1986) The Elevator
• (1992) Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
• (1993) The Halloween Tree
• (1998) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

 

[poodlesrule]

I just watched a YT video of Ray B. speaking at NASA JPL in 1971 (as linked on BoingBoing). Excellent stuff.
It looks like there are several, actually.