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Liberal Prawn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: near the kingdom of Boulder, CO
Posts: 20,921
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The last - "ABC of SciFi" to die...
Asimov
Bradbury
Clarke
The Illustrated Man is one of my all time favorites, and I bet almost everyone has read Fahrenheit 451 in school.
A great author-who really painted worlds with his words. I remember reading a short story in Golden Apples of the Sun, where he wrote about a school aged kid putting on that new pair of sneakers for the first time in summer. Bradbury made that simple act - relating the first inkling of the freedom ahead during the child's summer break, Bradbury made that simple truism poetic.
He will be missed.
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