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The future science fiction writer was born on August 22, 1920 (according to other sources - on the 25th of the same month) in Waukegan. A small town located in Illinois, next to Lake Michigan. Parents called the boy by name famous actor Douglas Fairbanks silent film (full name of the writer Ray Douglas Bradbury). When the whole country plunged into the Great Depression, the Bradbury moved to live in Los Angeles, where they were invited by one of their relatives.
From childhood, parents instilled in the boy a love of nature and reading books. They lived poorly and could not provide Ray for college education - Bradbury received only secondary education. So for the next three years, the boy sells newspapers in the street.
Ray Bradbury
The beginning of creative activity
Ray Bradbury wrote his first story at age 12. This work continued the famous story "The Great Warrior of Mars", one of his favorite writers - Edgar Rice Burroughs. Back in 1937, when he was finishing school, Bradbury became a member of the Los Angeles Science Fiction League. It is then that the author begins his first publications in magazines.
With no money to go to college, Ray is self-educating. The boy spends 3-4 days a week in the city library, reading a variety of books.
In addition to self-education, Ray Bradbury writes for hours, honing his literary skills. In late 1939 - early 1940, Bradbury published the magazine Futuria Fantasy. On the pages of the magazine, he shares his thoughts about the future of mankind and the dangers that it conceals in itself.
Already in 1942, Bradbury ends up selling newspapers and is closely engaged in writing science fiction stories. Ray Bradbury publishes up to 50 works per year, literary earnings become the main source of income. The writer has always closely followed scientific breakthroughs, was a participant in two world scientific exhibitions in Chicago and New York.
Bradbury's passion for achievements in modern science and his vision of the future, formed a further direction in the writer's work. The science fiction writer wrote his stories and novels in the genre of a technocratic utopia. In the future that Ray described, there were no wars, hunger and lawlessness. In his works, he revealed the life of heroes, consisting of love and meetings, pain, separation and hope.
Personal life and worldwide fame
In 1946, in a bookstore where he was a frequent visitor, the writer saw Margaret McClure. She became the only beloved woman of Ray Bradbury. Over the next year, Margaret and Ray formalized their marriage. It lasted until 2003 - this year Margaret passed away.
Over the years family life, the couple raised four girls: Bettina, Ramona, Susan and Alexandra. The first years after marriage, Margaret was the main breadwinner in the family. The writer had not yet won worldwide fame and was sorely lacking money. But the wife put the financial worries on her shoulders so that Ray continued to write stories.
Bradbury continued to write works and in 1947 released his first collection, Dark Carnival. But the stories were coolly received by critics. Three years after publication, the famous "Martian Chronicles" of the writer are published. This was the author's first successful project. Later, Bradbury admitted that he always considered the "Martian Chronicles" his best creation.
World fame came to Ray Bradbury after publishing the novel "Fahrenheit 451". Moreover, the novel was first published not in science fiction magazines, but in Playboy. In the novel, the writer shows a totalitarian society in the near future that fights dissent by burning all the books. The work gained such popularity that in 1966 it was filmed, filming the film of the same name.
Ray Bradbury's final years and his death
Ray Bradbury believed that work prolongs life. Science fiction morning began with the fact that he wrote several pages for the next novel or story. Now Bradbury's new books hit store shelves every year. The novel "Farewell Summer" was published in 2006 and became the final work in the writer's work.
Last years the writer spent in a wheelchair after suffering a stroke at the age of 76. But despite this, he was always in a good mood and with a great sense of humor. For example, when asked why Mars has not been colonized until now, Bradbury joked: “Because people are idiots. They only want to consume. "
Interesting facts from the life of the writer
Ray Bradbury was an extraordinary person, his biography is filled with interesting and intriguing facts:
- At 4, the boy watched the film Notre Dame Cathedral. In him, the forces of good waged war with the dark forces. The film scared Bradbury so much that after that he fell asleep only when the lights were on, fearing the dark.
- All his life, as the author himself claimed, he dreamed of flying to Mars. At the same time, all non-space inventions caused him to panic - even with the advent of personal computers, he continued to write stories on a typewriter.
- Ray Bradbury has created over 800 pieces. Despite the fact that the main direction of his work was fantastic stories, Bradbury wrote poetry and even dramas. He also wrote several scripts for films and TV series - "Trouble Coming", "Alien from Space" and others.
- There was a legend in the writer's family that his grandmother was a witch and she was burned during the infamous Salem Trial. There is no documentary evidence of the legend, but the writer himself believed in this all his life.
- Ray Bradbury never drove a car himself - he was afraid to get behind the wheel after he witnessed two terrible accidents as a child.
- Bradbury was a loyal family man and lived his entire life with one woman. It was with her hands that the first copy of the "Martian Chronicles" was typed.
Ray Bradbury Born August 22, 1920, at 11 St. James Street Hospital, Waukegan, Illinois. Full name - Raymond Douglas (middle name in honor of the famous actor Douglas Fairbanks). Ray's grandfather and great-grandfather, the descendants of the first settlers - the British who came to America in 1630 - published two Illinois newspapers at the end of the 19th century (in the provinces, this is a certain position in society and fame). Father - Leonard Spaulding Bradbury. Mother - Marie Esther Moberg, Swedish by birth. By the time Ray was born, his father was not even 30, he worked as an electrician and was the father of a four-year-old son, Leonard Jr. (his twin brother, Sam, was born with Leonard Jr., but he died two years old). In 1926, Bradbury has a little sister, Elizabeth, she also died as a child.
Ray rarely remembered his father, more often his mother, and only in his third book (The Cure for Melancholy, 1959) can the following dedication be found: "To a father with a love that woke up so late and even surprised his son"... However, Leonard Sr. could no longer read this, he died two years earlier, at the age of 66. This unexpressed love was vividly reflected in the story "Desire". In Dandelion Wine, which is essentially a book of childhood memories, the main adult character is named Leonard Spaulding. The collection of poems "When the elephants bloomed in the courtyard for the last time" the author provided the following dedication: “This book is in memory of my grandmother Minnie Davis Bradbury, and my grandfather Samuel Hinxton Bradbury, and my brother Samuel, and sister Elizabeth. They all died long ago, but I still remember them. " He often inserts their names into his stories.
"Uncle Einar" existed in reality. It was a favorite of Ray's relatives. When the family moved to Los Angeles in 1934, he also moved there - to the delight of his nephew. Also in the stories there are the names of another uncle, Bion, and aunt of Nevada (she was simply called Neva in the family).
“I started reading the works of Dostoevsky when I was 20 years old. From his books, I learned how to write novels and tell stories. I read other authors as well, but when I was younger Dostoevsky was the main one for me. "
Ray Bradbury has a unique memory. Here is how he talks about it himself: “I have always had what I would call an“ almost complete mental return ”to the hour of birth. I remember the cutting of the umbilical cord, I remember the first time I sucked the mother's breast. The nightmares that usually lie in wait for a newborn are included in my mental cheat sheet from the very first weeks of life. I know, I know it’s impossible, most people don’t remember anything like that. And psychologists say that children are born not fully developed, only after a few days or even weeks gaining the ability to see, hear, know. But I saw, heard, knew ... ". (remember the story "The Little Killer"). He clearly remembers the first snowfall in his life. A later recollection is about how his, still three years old, his parents took with them to the cinema for the first time. There was a sensational silent film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" with Lon Cheney in the title role, and the image of the freak struck little Ray to the core.
“My early impressions are usually associated with the painting, which is still in front of my eyes: a terrible night journey up the stairs ... It always seemed to me that as soon as I step on the last step, I would immediately find myself face to face with a vile monster waiting for me upstairs. Head over heels I rolled down and ran crying to my mother, and then the two of us again climbed the steps. Usually the monster was running away somewhere by this time. For me, it remained unclear why my mother was completely devoid of imagination: after all, she never saw this monster. "
The Bradbury family had a legend about a witch in their own ancestry - great-great ... great-grandmother, allegedly burned at the famous Salem trial over witches in 1692. There, however, the convicts were hanged, and the name of Mary Bradbury in the list of those who passed "on the case" could be a mere coincidence. Nevertheless, the fact remains: from childhood, the writer considered himself the great-grandson of a sorceress. It is worth noting that in his stories the evil spirits are just good, and otherworldly beings turn out to be much more human than their persecutors - the Puritans, bigots and “clean” lawyers.
The Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles in the 30s, at the height of the Great Depression. When Ray graduated high school, they could not buy him a new jacket. I had to go to the prom in the costume of Lester's late uncle, who was killed by a robber. The bullet holes in the belly and back of the jacket were carefully darned.
All his life Bradbury lived with one woman - Margaret (Marguerite McClure). Together they made four daughters (Tina, Ramona, Susan and Alexandra).
They were married on September 27, 1947. From that day on, for several years, she worked all day so that Ray could stay at home and work on books. The first copy of The Martian Chronicles was typed with her hands. This book was dedicated to her. During her life, Margaret studied four languages, and was also known as a connoisseur of literature (among her favorite writers Marcel Proust, Agatha Christie and ... Ray Bradbury). She was also well versed in wine and loved cats. Everyone who knew her personally spoke of her as a person of rare charm and an owner of an extraordinary sense of humor.
“On the trains ... in the late evening hours I enjoyed the company of Bernard Shaw, JK Chesterton, and Charles Dickens — old friends of mine following me everywhere, invisible but tangible; silent, but constantly agitated ... Sometimes Aldous Huxley sat down with us, blind, but inquisitive and wise. Richard III often traveled with me, he talked about murder, elevating it to a virtue. Somewhere in the middle of Kansas at midnight I buried Caesar, and Mark Antony shone with his eloquence when we left Eldebury Springs ... "
Ray Bradbury never went to college, formally finishing his education at the school level. In 1971 he published his article entitled “How I Finished Libraries Instead of College, or Thoughts of a Teenager Who Visited the Moon in 1932”.
Many of his stories and novellas are named as quotations from the works of other authors: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" - from Shakespeare; The Wonderful Wonder, from Coleridge's unfinished poem Kubla (y) Khan; "Golden apples of the sun" - a line from Yeats; Singing Body Electric - Whitman; “And the moon is still silvering with its rays ...” - Byron; the story "Asleep in Armageddon" has a second title: "And it may be possible to dream" - a line from Hamlet's monologue; the completion of Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson - "The sailor returned home, he returned home from the sea" - also gave the title to the story; the story and collection of short stories "Machines of Happiness" are named a quote from William Blake - this list is far from complete.
“Jules Verne was my father. Wells is a wise uncle. Edgar Allan Poe was my cousin; he is like a bat - he always lived in our dark attic. Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers are my brothers and comrades. So much for all my relatives. I will add that my mother, in all likelihood, was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein. Well, what else could I become if not a science fiction writer with such a family. "
In Ray Bradbury's study, the license plate "F-451" is nailed to the wall, despite the fact that he himself never got behind the wheel.
“What about my gravestone? I would like to borrow an old lamppost in case you come to my grave at night to say hello to me. And the lantern will burn, turn and weave some secrets with others - weave forever. And if you come to visit, leave the apple for the ghosts. "
Unusual, unique, extraordinary - such epithets can be applied to the work of the outstanding science fiction writer Ray Douglas Bradbury. When you pick up his novel or story, you are surprised at the non-standard nature of what was written. With his heroes, you can take a time machine to the distant past, step into another world, defeat the forces of evil and fight enemies. Over the course of his life, more than eight hundred different works have been published from the pen of the writer Ray Bradbury.
The talented child was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. His mother, Marie Esther Moberg, was from the large Swedish Moberg clan. The woman lost two children (son and daughter), and therefore overprotected Ray, not allowing him even with a cold to get out of bed for a long time. An impressionable boy with an amazing memory, took the news of the death of his brother and sister Elizabeth with bitterness. This influenced in the future his stories, one of the main themes of which is the escape from death to fantastic, fictional worlds.
Incredible was the fact that Ray, unlike other children, remembered the first hours after his birth. Maybe this is due to the fact that he was born transformed. The boy clearly remembered both the first snowfall and how he was first taken to the cinema at the age of three. The image of a freak in a film called "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" struck an impressionable child.
Ray's relationship with his father Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and his older brother did not work out. Affected by the dissimilarity of characters: Ray Bradbury was very different in dreaminess and love of reading. Science fiction is one of the genres of the writer. In the images of heroes, you can often recognize members of his family. For example, Uncle Einar (his image is presented in the science fiction story of the same name by the writer Bradbury) actually existed. He was a favorite of Ray's relatives, his uncle, who moved to Los Angeles with his family. Also from real life in the stories the names of Bion and Aunt Nevada are taken.
More than four hundred stories have come from the pen of Ray Bradbury. These include "The Last Night of the World", "The Shoreline at Sunset", "The Smile", as well as "A Sound of Thunder ) and many others. The author calls many stories and stories quotes from the works of other famous writers and poets: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" - from Shakespeare; “Wonderful Wonder” - from Coleridge's unfinished poem “Kubla (y) Khan” ... It is surprising that the author of these unique creations received only a school education, although at school he attended a poetry circle, which, besides him, were attended by thirteen talented girls.
With the choice of who he wants to become, young Ray decided at the age of 12. Stubbornly, step by step, he masters the difficult profession of a writer, despite the Great Depression that reigned in America.
The beginning of a writing career
His first publication was a poem In Memory of Will Rogers, published in 1936 in the Waukegan newspaper.
In the 30s, the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles. And at the age of 20, Ray began to read Dostoevsky's works, which were a kind of textbooks for a talented young man. The future writer saw an example of how to write novels correctly.
In 1937, Bradbury joined the Science Fiction League, an association of young writers. Over time, his first stories could be seen in cheap paperback publications. But among other works, they stood out for their lyricism and depth of thought.
The first serious works of Ray Douglas Bradbury are his collection of short stories entitled "Gloomy Carnival", published in 1947, as well as the works "The Martian Chronicles" and "451 degrees according to Farnite", which were published in 1950. The first edition of The Martian Chronicles won fans of the writer's talent: when he returned from a trip (to sell books, Ray had to travel from Los Angeles to New York), he was greeted by a crowd of people wanting to get an autograph.
If you are not familiar with the famous science fiction story, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with a summary of its contents before reading.
By the way, the first copy of the book "The Martian Chronicles" was typed by the hands of a devoted colleague and wife Margaret (and is also dedicated to her). With this woman, the author of unique fantastic works linked his fate on September 27, 1947. She gave great importance creative work Ray and therefore, from the day of her marriage, she gave her husband the opportunity to stay at home and create.
An erudite and educated woman, Margaret spoke four languages, knew the peculiarities of literature well and preferred some writers (including Agatha Christie, Marcel Proust and, of course, her beloved Ray Bradbury). In the marriage of this wonderful couple, four daughters were born: Alexandra, Susan, Bettina and Ramona. Another serious work of Bradbury can be considered the book "Dandelion Wine", published in 1957, a novel that was composed of individual stories. Unfortunately, its sequel, Farewell Summer, was not immediately published due to, as the editors claimed, the "immaturity of the text." This novel was released only in 2006.
What is the main achievement of Ray Bradbury? The fact that he managed to interest his reader in new genres of science fiction and fantasy, which were rarely used in literature before. After 1963, Ray Bradbury, as before, continued to publish short stories, but, in addition, became interested in a new genre - drama. A corollary to this is the first collection of plays, The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics, dedicated to Ireland, which was released in 1963.
Bradbury's passion for poetry manifested itself in the writing of three collections, which in 1982 were published in one volume. During this period of his life, the author created many novels and short stories, far from the fantastic genre, and published in various magazines.
An important component creative life became for Ray Bradbury and cinema. Raised on classic Hollywood films, the science fiction writer calls his short stories, novels, and novellas "cinematic." In addition, many screenplays came out from under his pen, in particular for the film "Moby Dick", which became the most successful.
From 1985 to 1992, the series of television programs “Ray Bradbury Theater” was released, which consists of sixty-five mini-films based on the stories of Bradbury. The honor of Ray Bradbury is made by the fact that his work as a screenwriter was highly appreciated by the outstanding director Sergei Bondarchuk.
last years of life
When Ray Bradbury was already in old age, he wrote either a story or a story every day in the hope that this would prolong his life. The most recent major novel was published in 2006. At the age of 79, the writer suffered a stroke, as a result of which he was forced to sit in a wheelchair. But even in this state, the author was able to joke and keep good spirits. “Imagine the headlines in all the newspapers in the world,” the writer told reporters when he was ninety. - Bradbury is one hundred years old! I will be given some kind of prize right away. " Alas, the famous writer did not live up to his centenary for eight years. He died in 2012.
Such is the fantastic fate of the prose writer and screenwriter, poet and science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.
Biography and creative activity Ray Douglas Bradbury
5 (100%) 2 votesRay Bradbury - books for fans of fantastic stories
If you like Ray Bradbury, you can find a list of the best books in this section. Readers love this writer primarily for the extraordinary worlds he creates and the exciting stories he creates. He gained great fame by writing the famous dystopia "Fahrenheit 451", a story with elements of his own biography "Dandelion Wine" and a fantastic cycle "The Martian Chronicles".
For those who have not yet met the work of this author, we suggest starting an acquaintance with Ray Bradbury himself, whose biography is full of interesting moments.
Ray Bradbury: biography of science fiction
Ray Bradbury, whose books became classics during his lifetime, was born on August 22, 1920 in the United States. The beginning of his creative career is associated with the League of Science Fiction. This organization originated in the early years after the Great Depression in America. His first publications were in magazines of questionable quality among mediocre science fiction novels by other authors. However, it was during these years that Ray Bradbury, whose list of the best books would later become the property of American literature, hones his literary skills and creates his own unique artistic style.
In the early forties of the last century, he created his own magazine, which was called "Futuria Fantasy". As the name implies, in it he talked about what awaits humanity in the near future.
In those years, Bradbury made his living selling newspapers and magazines. But soon, making progress in writing, he left this business and was closely engaged in writing stories. An interest in science and technology allowed the continuous generation of story ideas for science fiction. He published more than fifty such works of small form a year.
In 1946, in Los Angeles, Bradbury met his future wife. Margaret McClure worked in a local bookstore, it was she who was to become the only love in the life of a writer. Four children were born from this marriage, and Bradbury himself devoted many novels to his wife. The income from the stories was not able to provide for the family, so at first the family budget was kept on the shoulders of Margaret. But in 1953, the writer came to worldwide fame when the novel "Fahrenheit 451" was published. Also, Ray Badbury, the list of books you can see below, has created a great many scripts. This explains, in particular, a large number of adaptations of his works.
Ray Bradbury is a legendary science fiction writer who turned his childhood dreams and nightmares, poor eyesight (which forced him out of military service) and Cold War paranoia into a brilliant literary career that spanned 74 years and included horror, sci-fi, fantasy, humor, plays, stories, novels and more. Here is a list of the 10 best books by Ray Bradbury that we would recommend everyone to read.
10 best books by Ray Bradbury
1.451 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT 451 (1953)
Inspired by the Cold War and the meteoric rise of television, Bradbury, a loyal follower of libraries, wrote this dark futuristic work in 1953. His future world is filled only with televisions and thoughtless entertainment, people have already stopped thinking and communicating with each other, and such masses no longer need literature, therefore in this world Bradbury firefighters are needed not to put out fires, but to burn books. "This novel is based on real facts, as well as on my hatred of those who burn books," - said Bradbury in a 2002 interview with The Associated Press.
Fahrenheit 451 he wrote in just nine days in the UCLA library. It was printed on a typewriter rented for 10 cents in half an hour. So the total sum that Bradbury spent on his bestseller, was $ 9.80.
2. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (1950)
1950 debut novel Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles brought him worldwide fame. Here he talks about the militant colonization by man of the utopian Martian nation. The work is built in the form of a chain of stories, each of which ridiculed the problems of humanity that were quite real at that time - racism, capitalism and the super-struggle for control of the planet. Most likely with "The Martian Chronicles", as well as with some other works Bradbury, the reader gets acquainted in childhood. Adults can easily see that all the fantastic worlds of the author are just our planet Earth, which is so amazing and mysterious, and which is destroyed not by strange creatures, but by man himself.
3. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN (1951)
In this collection of 18 popular science stories published in 1951, Bradbury tries to look into the very human insides in order to describe in detail the reasons for certain actions. The growing struggle between technology and human psychology, along with the main story of the tattooed tramp, the Man in Pictures, connects the new collection with the previous work Bradbury... The character "man in pictures" the writer took from his previous collection "Dark Carnival". "Man in Pictures" is a collection of creative powers Bradbury... The ideas raised here will form the basis of the writer's further fantastic philosophy. It took him many efforts to persuade the publisher not to call the collection sci-fi. It is thanks to this Ray Bradbury managed to get rid of the status of a low-standard hack.
4. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962)
This fantastic horror movie tells the story of two boys who ran away from home at night to watch the carnival and witnessed the transformation of Cooger (a forty-year-old participant in the carnival) into a twelve-year-old boy. This is the beginning of the adventure of two guys, during which they explore the conflicting nature of good and evil. The title of the novel originates from the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare: "He pricks his fingers. / So always / Trouble is coming." This story was originally written as a screenplay for a film directed by Gene Kelly, but he was never able to find funding, so Bradbury created a full-fledged novel out of this.
5. WINE FROM DANCEL / DANDELION WINE (1957)
This semi-autobiographical novel is set in 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois. The prototype of this place is the hometown Bradbury - Waukegan is in the same state. Much of the book describes the routine of a provincial American town and the simple joys of the past centered around making wine from dandelion petals. It is this wine that becomes that metaphorical bottle into which all the joys of summer are poured. Despite the fact that the book does not contain a supernatural theme familiar to the writer, the magic itself here revolves around children's feelings and experiences that can no longer be repeated in adulthood. You should not try to read this book in one breath: it is worth trying in small sips, so that each page can give you its own magic of your childhood.
6.THE SOND OF SUNDER (1952)
This story tells us about a passionate hunter who is tired of his usual safari. Therefore, for a huge amount, he goes back in time to hunt a dinosaur. But unfortunately for him, the rules of hunting are strict, since you can kill only one animal that would have died by coincidence of natural circumstances. The whole story is based on a theory that was later called the "butterfly effect". The essence of this theory is that small changes in the past can have catastrophic consequences for the future. But, in times Bradbury this term was not yet known, therefore "And Thunder Rocked" was most often attributed to chaos theory at one time. In 2005, this story was filmed under the same name.
7. DARK CARNIVAL (1947)
This is the first collection of stories Ray Bradbury... The "Dark Carnival" contains, perhaps, the largest concentration of "dark" horror films and fantastic stories from all the work of Bradbury. Which is not strange, because being the works of an unknown writer, it was these stories that brought Bradbury money. Initially, he wanted to call the collection “ Kindergarten horror ”, thus drawing an analogy with children's nightmares. Terrible, grotesque and distorted images populated these stories. There are maniacs, vampires and eccentric people who are afraid of their own skeletons. Ray Bradbury he never returned entirely to this genre, but the images he created at the beginning of his work have repeatedly surfaced in his more famous works.
8. SUMMER, FAREWELL! / FAREWELL SUMMER (2006)
This is the last romance Ray Bradburyreleased during his lifetime and is partly autobiographical. This is a kind of continuation of "Dandelion Wine", in which main character, Douglas Spaulding, is gradually turning into a grown man. And during this period of growing up, the line dividing the youth and the old becomes clearly visible. According to himself Bradbury the idea of \u200b\u200bthis story came to him back in the 50s, and he planned to release it in the same "Dandelion Wine", but the volume was too large for the publisher: “But for this book, rejected by the publishers, the title appeared immediately:“ Summer, goodbye". So, all these years the second part of "Dandelion Wine" has matured to such a state where, from my point of view, it is not ashamed to show it to the world. I patiently waited for these chapters of the novel to be overgrown with new thoughts and images that give life to the entire text, ”said Bradbury.
9. DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS (1985)
The location and time of this detective novel is Venice, California, 1949. A series of brutal murders, undoubtedly related, attracts the attention of an aspiring writer, undoubtedly written off from the very Bradbury... He, along with Detective Elmo Crumley, are trying to figure out what is happening. This is one of the first works in which Bradbury develops his detective skills, and also shows the first attempts to tie the plot on himself. The author was inspired to write the novel by a real series of murders that took place in Los Angeles from 1942 to 1950. Bradbury was present there at that time, and constantly followed this story.
10. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (1953)
This is the third collection of stories Ray Bradbury... In it, the writer decided to move away from the sci-fi genre and focus on more realistic stories, fairy tales and detective stories. Of course, fantasy is also present here, but it is more limited to the background. In total, the collection includes 22 wonderful stories, including "Howler", "Pedestrian", "Murderer" and other stories. By the way, "Golden Apples of the Sun" is dedicated to the woman who most influenced the writer's career - his aunt Neva.
Greatest fame Bradbury brought him fiction, creative and at the same time contemplative, in which he imagined a future world inhabited by Martians with telepathic abilities, book-burning and loving sea monsters. And this futuristic writer strongly protested against the translation of his books into electronic form... Maybe, Ray Bradbury I was afraid that such a passion for technology was the first step towards his future dystopia.
