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Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury. American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet. Born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. The Martian Chronicles in 1950 describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences.

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Ray Bradbury

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  1. Ray Bradbury • American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet. • Born August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois.

  2. The Martian Chronicles in 1950 • describes the first attempts of Earth people to conquer and colonize Mars, and the unintended consequences. • 1953, Fahrenheit 451. • Bradbury has published more than thirty books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays.

  3. Ray Bradbury's work has been included in four Best American Short Story collections. • He has been awarded: • O. Henry Memorial Award • Benjamin Franklin Award • World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement • National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

  4. He has been nominated for an Academy Award (for his animated film Icarus Montgolfier Wright), and has won an Emmy Award (for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree). • He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's Ray Bradbury Theater. • He was the creative consultant on the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

  5. Bradbury helped design the geodesic sphere and pen the original story of the attraction Spaceship Earth.

  6. Married with four daughters. • Bradbury is still alive and living in Los Angeles.

  7. "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. The feeling I have every day is very much the same as it was when I was twelve. In any event, here I am, eighty years old, feeling no different, full of a great sense of joy, and glad for the long life that has been allowed me. I have good plans for the next ten or twenty years, and I hope you'll come along." • -Bradbury (2000)

  8. The Atomic Age: • many people feared that the world was one step away from nuclear war. • Post-apocalyptic fiction began to emerge at this time. Admiral “Spike” Blandy and his wife celebrate the detonation of the largest thermonuclear device ever tested by the United States at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1946 with a cake. This photograph, entitled “Atomic Age Angel Food”, drew heavy criticism from throughout the nation and from around the world.

  9. Television: • Television sets first became widely available to the general public in the 1950s. • Television has entertained and informed viewers for decades, but it has also been criticized for presenting a distorted view of the world and for taking time away other activities like reading, exercise, conversation, and family time.

  10. Science Fiction & Fantasy: • The 1950s saw science fiction and fantasy emerge into the mainstream of popular culture. • Classic science fiction and fantasy books of the decade include I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, Childhood’s End by Arthur Clarke, Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. • Popular films include The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and This Island Earth. The TV series The Twilight Zone first aired in 1959.

  11. References • http://www.raybradbury.com/ • http://www.northbrook.info/lib_F451_background.php • http://www.spareroom.co.nz/2008/08/14/little-gordon-ramsay-and-other-choice-links/

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