Ray Bradbury RIP

[Clint Planet]

I remember my English teacher in secondary school reading a few short stories to us from a collection called The Golden Apples of the Sun when I was about fourteen.

One in particular, 'The Sound of Thunder,' really resonated and made me go out and buy Fahrenheit 451 a year or two later. Still one of the greatest books I've ever read and deserving of being mentioned as one part of a dystopian triumvirate along with Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty Four. I re-read it a couple of years ago and it was at least as good as it was thirty years previous. Poetic, prescient and shocking.

RIP, Mr Bradbury. You were one of the greats.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Without a doubt, one of the greatest writers my country has ever produced. RIP.

 

[icburns]

Gutted. One of the best, he was.

 

[BigBlueConk]

Man is a legend. Loved his stories.
Sound of Thunder was read to the class by my English teacher back in the day.

 

[Roztitute]

RIP.

Fahrenheit 451 is an amazing book.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Don't read much fiction, clearly this was a good one. Loads of interviews on the radio with him, he sounded ace.

 

[kev101]

Visionary!