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Ray Bradbury
Of all the American science fiction writers, there was a time when Ray Bradbury was the most prized.
He was an enduring author of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mysteries.
He was born on Aug 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois.
He died at the age of 91, on Jun5,2012 which was the Venus Transit Day.
The Washington Post hallmarked several modern day technologies that Bradbury had envisioned much earlier in his writing, such as the idea of banking ATMs and earbuds and Bluetooth headsets from Fahrenheit 451, and the concepts of artificial intelligence within I Sing the Body Electric.
As influenced by George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare as he was by Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Bradbury was an expert of the taut tale, the last-sentence twist.
Some of his famous works are
Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
It was named so to represent the temperature at which paper ignites.
The Martian Chronicles (1950)- collection of science fiction stories
The Illustrated Man (1951)
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