Ray Bradbury, Master of Science Fiction, Dies at 91, A.P. Says
Ray Bradbury, a master of science fiction whose lyrical evocations of the future
reflected both the optimism and the anxieties of his own postwar America, died
on Tuesday in Southern California. He was 91.
By many estimations Mr. Bradbury was the writer most responsible for bringing
modern science fiction into the literary mainstream. His name would appear near
the top of any list of major science-fiction writers of the 20th century, beside
those of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein and the Polish
author Stanislaw Lem.
In Mr. Bradbury’s lifetime more than eight million copies of his books were sold
in 36 languages. They included the short-story collections “The Martian
Chronicles,” “The Illustrated Man” and “The Golden Apples of the Sun,” and the
novels “Fahrenheit 451” and “Something Wicked This Way Comes.”
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