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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 silent film by Douglas Fairbanks (the writer's full name is Ray Douglas Bradbury). When the whole country plunged into the Great Depression, the Bradburys moved to live in Los Angeles, where they were invited by one of their relatives.
Parents from childhood instilled in the boy a love of nature and reading books. They lived in poverty and could not provide Ray with a college education - Bradbury received only a secondary education. So for the next three years, the boy sells newspapers on the street.
Ray Bradbury
The beginning of creative activity
Ray Bradbury wrote his first short story at the age of 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 Science Fiction League of Los Angeles. It was then that the author began his first publications in journals.
With no money for a college education, Ray educates himself. 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 is engaged in publishing the magazine Futuria Fantasy. On the pages of the magazine, he shares his thoughts about the future of mankind and the dangers that it is fraught with.
Already in 1942, Bradbury finished selling newspapers and was closely engaged in writing fantastic stories. Ray Bradbury publishes up to 50 works a 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 fascination with achievements in modern science and his vision of the future, formed the further direction in the writer's work. Fantast wrote his stories and novels in the genre of technocratic utopia. In the future that Ray described, there were no wars, famines and lawlessness. In his works, he revealed the life of heroes, consisting of love and meetings, pain, separation and hope.
Personal life and world fame
In 1946, in a bookstore where he was a frequent visitor, the writer saw Margaret Maclure. 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 died.
Over the years family life, the couple raised four girls: Bettina, Ramona, Susan and Alexandra. The first years after her marriage, Margaret was the main breadwinner in the family. The writer had not yet won worldwide fame and money was sorely lacking. But the wife put financial worries on her shoulders so that Ray continued to write stories.
Bradbury continued to write and in 1947 released his first collection, Dark Carnival. But the stories were lukewarmly acclaimed by critics. Three years after the publication, the famous "Martian Chronicles" of the writer are released into the world. It was the author's first successful project. Later, Bradbury admitted that he always considered The Martian Chronicles to be his best creation.
World fame came to Ray Bradbury after publishing the novel Fahrenheit 451. And for the first time the novel was published not in fantasy magazines, but in Playboy. In the novel, the writer shows a totalitarian society in the near future that fights dissent by burning all books. The work gained such popularity that in 1966 it was filmed, having shot the film of the same name.
The last years of Ray Bradbury and his death
Ray Bradbury believed that work prolongs life. The morning of the science fiction writer began with the fact that he wrote several pages for the next novel or short story. Now new Bradbury books appeared on store shelves every year. The novel "Summer, Farewell" 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 yet been colonized, Bradbury joked: “Because people are idiots. They only want to consume.”
Interesting facts from the writer's life
Ray Bradbury was an extraordinary person, his biography is filled with interesting and intriguing facts:
- At the age of 4, the boy watched the film Notre Dame Cathedral. In it, the forces of good were at war with the dark forces. The film so frightened Bradbury that after that he fell asleep only with the lights on, afraid of the dark.
- All his life, as the author himself claimed, he dreamed of flying to Mars. At the same time, all inventions not related to space caused him to panic - even with the advent of personal computers, he continued to write stories on a typewriter.
- Ray Bradbury created over 800 works. Despite the fact that the main focus of his work was fantasy stories, Bradbury wrote poetry and even drama. He also wrote several scripts for films and TV shows - "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 it all his life.
- Ray Bradbury never drove a car himself - he was afraid to get behind the wheel after witnessing two terrible accidents as a child.
- Bradbury was a devoted family man and lived his whole 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 (second name in honor of the famous actor Douglas Fairbanks). Ray's grandfather and great-grandfather, descendants of the first settlers - the English who sailed to America in 1630 - published two Illinois newspapers at the end of the 19th century (in the province 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. (together with Leonard Jr., his twin brother, Sam, was born, but he died two years old). In 1926, Bradbury had a sister, Elizabeth, who also died as a child.
Ray rarely remembered his father, more often his mother, and only in his third book (A Cure for Melancholy, 1959) can one find the following dedication: "To the father with 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 is 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 for the Last Time in the Courtyard” the author provided the following dedication: “This book is in memory of my grandmother Minnie Davis Bradbury and my grandfather Samuel Hinkston Bradbury and my brother Samuel and sister Elizabeth. They all died a long time ago, but I remember them to this day.” Often he inserts their names into his stories.
"Uncle Einar" existed in reality. It was Ray's favorite relative. 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 Nevada (she was simply called Neva in the family).
“I started reading Dostoyevsky's works when I was 20 years old. From his books I learned how to write novels and tell stories. I read other authors too, but when I was younger, Dostoevsky was the main one for me.”
Ray Bradbury has a unique memory. Here is how he tells it himself: “I have always had what I would call an “almost complete mental return” to the hour of birth. I remember cutting the umbilical cord, I remember the first time I sucked my mother's breast. The nightmares that usually lie in wait for a newborn are listed 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 memory is about how his parents, still three years old, took him to the cinema for the first time. There was a sensational silent film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" with Lon Chaney in the title role, and the image of a freak struck little Ray to the core.
“My early impressions are usually connected with the picture that still stands before 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 me upstairs. I rolled down head over heels and ran crying to my mother, and then the two of us climbed the stairs again. 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.
There was a legend in the Bradbury family about a witch in their own pedigree - a great-great... great-grandmother, allegedly burned at the famous Salem witch trials in 1692. There, however, the convicts were hanged, and the name of Mary Bradbury in the list of those held “on the case” could turn out to be a mere coincidence. Nevertheless, the fact remains: since childhood, the writer considered himself the great-grandson of a sorceress. It is worth noting that in his stories the evil spirits are just kind, and otherworldly creatures turn out to be much more humane than their pursuers - puritans, bigots and "clean" lawyers.
The Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression. When Ray graduated high school, they couldn't buy him a new jacket. I had to go to prom in the costume of the late uncle Lester, who died at the hands of a robber. The bullet holes on the belly and back of the jacket were neatly mended.
All his life Bradbury lived with one woman - Margaret (Marguerite McClure). Together they had four daughters (Tina, Ramona, Susan and Alexandra).
They married on September 27, 1947. From that day forward, for several years, she worked all day so that Ray could stay at home and work on the books. The first copy of The Martian Chronicles was typed with her hands. This book was dedicated to her. Margaret learned four languages in her life, and was also known as a connoisseur of literature (among her favorite writers are Marcel Proust, Agatha Christie and ... Ray Bradbury). She was also well versed in wines and loved cats. Everyone who knew her personally spoke of her as a person of rare charm and the owner of an extraordinary sense of humor.
“On trains ... in the late evening hours I enjoyed the company of Bernard Shaw, J.K. Chesterton and Charles Dickens - my old friends who follow 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 ranted 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, he formally completed his education at the school level. In 1971, he published an article entitled "How I Graduated from Libraries Instead of College, or Thoughts of a Teenager Who Went to the Moon in 1932."
Many of his short stories and novellas are named as quotes from the works of other authors: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" - from Shakespeare; "Outlandish Wonder" - from Coleridge's unfinished poem "Kubla (y) Khan"; "Golden apples of the sun" - a line from Yeats; "I sing the electric body" - Whitman; “And the moon still silvers the space with its rays ...” - Byron; the story "Sleep in Armageddon" has a second name: "And it may be possible to dream" - a line from Hamlet's monologue; the conclusion of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Requiem" - "Home the sailor returned, he returned home from the sea" - also gave the story its title; the short story and collection of short stories "Happy Machines" are named after 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. Here is all my family. I'll also add that my mother, in all likelihood, was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein. Well, who else could I become, if not a science fiction writer with such a family.
Ray Bradbury's car number F-451 is nailed to the wall in Ray Bradbury's office, despite the fact that he himself never got behind the wheel.
“What about my gravestone? I would like to borrow an old lamp post in case you wander to my grave at night to say "Hi!". And the lantern will burn, turn and weave some secrets with others - weave forever. And if you come to visit, leave an 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 of what is written. With his heroes, you can fly away in a time machine into 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 came out from under the pen of the writer Ray Bradbury.
A 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 (a son and a daughter), and therefore overprotected Ray, not allowing him to get out of bed even with a cold for a long time. The impressionable boy, who had an amazing memory, bitterly received the news of the death of his brother and sister Elizabeth. This influenced his stories in the future, 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 overweight. The boy clearly remembered the first snowfall, and how he was taken to the cinema for the first time at the age of three. The image of the freak in the film called "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" struck an impressionable child.
Ray's relationship with his father Leonard Spalding Bradbury and his older brother did not work out. The dissimilarity of characters affected: Ray Bradbury was very different in dreaminess and love of reading. Fantasy 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 eponymous fantasy story by the writer Bradbury) actually existed. He was Ray's favorite relative, his uncle, who moved to Los Angeles with his family. Also from real life the names of Bion and Aunt Nevada are taken in the stories.
From the pen of Ray Bradbury came out over four hundred stories. This is “Tomorrow the end of the world” (The Last Night of the World), and “Shore at sunset” (The Shoreline at Sunset), and “Smile” (The Smile), as well as “And the thunder” (A Sound of Thunder ) and many others. The author calls many stories and novels quotes from the works of other famous writers and poets: "Something Wicked This Way Comes" - from Shakespeare; "An outlandish 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, whose visitors, besides him, were thirteen talented girls.
With the choice of who he wants to become, young Ray decided at the age of 12. Persistently, step by step, he masters the difficult profession of a writer, despite the Great Depression that reigned in America.
The beginning of a career as a writer
His first publication was the poem "In Memory of Will Rogers", published in 1936 in a Waukean newspaper.
In the 1930s, the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles. And at the age of 20, Ray began to read the works of Dostoevsky, which were a kind of textbook for a talented young man. The future writer saw a model of how to write novels correctly.
In 1937, Bradbury joined the Science Fiction League, an association of young writers. After a while, his first stories could be seen in cheap paperback editions. 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 called "Gloomy Carnival", published in 1947, as well as the works "The Martian Chronicles" and "451 degrees Fahrenheit", 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 met by a crowd of people who wanted an autograph.
If you are not familiar with the famous popular science fiction story, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with its summary before reading.
By the way, the first copy of The Martian Chronicles was typed by the hands of a devoted comrade-in-arms and wife Margaret (and is also dedicated to her). With this woman, the author of unique fantastic works connected 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 (among them 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 compiled from separate stories. Unfortunately, its sequel, which was called "Summer, Farewell", was not immediately printed due to, as the editors claimed, "the immaturity of the text." This novel was published 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 had rarely been used in literature before. After 1963, Ray Bradbury, as before, continued to publish stories, but, in addition, he became interested in a new genre - drama. A consequence of 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 released in one volume. During this period of his life, the author created many novels and short stories that were far from the fantastic genre, and was published in various magazines.
An important component creative life became for Ray Bradbury and cinema. Raised on classic Hollywood movies, the science fiction writer calls his short stories, novels, and novellas "cinematographic." 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 Ray Bradbury Theater TV series was released, which consists of sixty-five mini-films based on Bradbury's stories. Ray Bradbury is also honored 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 his old age, he wrote either a story or a novel 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 maintain good spirits. “Imagine the headlines in all the newspapers in the world,” the writer answered reporters when he was ninety. – Bradbury is 100 years old! I'll be given an award right away." Alas, the famous writer did not live eight years before the centenary. 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 of Ray Douglas Bradbury
5 (100%) 2 votesRay Bradbury - books for lovers of fantasy 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 unusual worlds he creates and the exciting plots. He gained great fame by composing the famous dystopia Fahrenheit 451, the story with elements of his own biography Dandelion Wine and the 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 a science fiction writer
Ray Bradbury, whose books became classics during his lifetime, was born on August 22, 1920 in the USA. The beginning of his creative career is connected with the Science Fiction League. This organization originated in the first years after the Great Depression in America. His first publications were in magazines of dubious quality among the mediocre fantasy novels of 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 earned his living by selling newspapers and magazines. But soon, making progress in writing, he left this business and was closely engaged in writing stories. Interest in science and technology allowed him to constantly generate story ideas for science fiction. In a year he published more than fifty such works of small form.
In 1946, in Los Angeles, Bradbury met his future wife. Margaret Maclure worked at a local bookstore, and it was she who was to become the only love in the writer's life. 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 rested on the shoulders of Margaret. But in 1953, worldwide fame came to the writer when the novel Fahrenheit 451 was released. Also Ray Badbury, the books of the list you can see just below, created a great many scripts. This explains, in particular, the large number of adaptations of his works.
Ray Bradbury is a legendary science fiction writer who managed to turn his childhood dreams and nightmares, poor eyesight (which forced him to refuse military service), and Cold War paranoia into a brilliant literary career that spanned 74 years and included horror, science fiction, fantasy, humor, plays, short stories, novels and more. We present you a list of the 10 best books by Ray Bradbury that we would recommend everyone to read.
10 best books by Ray Bradbury
1. FAHRENHEIT 451 / FAHRENHEIT 451 (1953)
Inspired by the Cold War and the meteoric rise of television, bradbury, a staunch supporter 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 my hatred for those who burn books,” said bradbury in an interview with The Associated Press in 2002.
Fahrenheit 451, he wrote in just nine days at the UCLA library. It was printed on a typewriter rented for 10 cents an hour. So the total amount bradbury spent on his bestseller, amounted to $ 9.80.
2. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (1950)
In 1950 debut novel Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles brought him worldwide fame. Here he talks about the militant human colonization of a utopian Martian nation. The work is built in the form of a chain of stories, each of which ridiculed the very real problems of humanity at that time - racism, capitalism and the over-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. MAN IN PICTURES / THE ILLUSTRATED MAN (1951)
In this collection of 18 non-fiction stories published in 1951, bradbury tries to look into the very human inside, in order to describe in detail the reasons for certain actions. The escalating struggle between technology and human psychology, along with a major story about a tattooed tramp, the "pictorial man," connects the new collection with previous work. bradbury. The writer took the character "man in pictures" from his previous collection "Dark Carnival". "Man in Pictures" is a collection of the flowering of creative forces bradbury. The ideas raised here will form the basis of the writer's further fantastic philosophy. It cost him many efforts to persuade the publisher not to call the collection science fiction. It is thanks to this Ray Bradbury managed to get rid of the status of a low-grade scribbler.
4 SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1962)
This fantastic horror film tells the story of two boys who ran away from home at night to see the carnival and witnessed the transformation of Kuger (a forty-year-old carnival participant) into a twelve-year-old boy. This is what becomes the beginning of the adventure of the two guys, during which they explore the contradictory nature of good and evil. The title of the novel comes from William Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Pricks the fingers./ As always/ Trouble is coming." This story was originally written as a screenplay for a film directed by Gene Kelly, but he couldn't find funding, so bradbury made a complete novel out of it.
5. 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 in the same state. Most of the book describes the routine of a provincial American town and the simple joys of the past, the center of which is the preparation of wine from dandelion petals. It is this wine that becomes the metaphorical bottle into which all the joys of summer are poured. Despite the fact that the book does not contain the supernatural theme familiar to the writer, the magic itself revolves around childhood feelings and experiences that can no longer be repeated in adulthood. Do not try to read this book in one breath: it is worth tasting it 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 the usual safari. Therefore, he goes to the past for a huge amount of money to hunt a dinosaur. But to his misfortune, the rules of hunting are strict, since you can only kill one animal, which would have already died due to 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, at the time bradbury this term was not yet known, therefore, “And Thunder Rang” was most often attributed to the theory of chaos in its 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 "gloomy" horror films and fantastic stories from all of Bradbury's work. Which is not strange, because being the works of an unknown writer, it was these stories that brought Bradbury money. He originally wanted to call the collection " Kindergarten horrors", thus drawing an analogy with children's nightmares. Scary, grotesque and distorted images inhabited these stories. There are maniacs, and 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 surfaced more than once in his more famous works.
8. SUMMER, FAREWELL SUMMER (2006)
This is the last novel Ray Bradbury, released during his lifetime, and is partly autobiographical. This is a kind of continuation of "Dandelion Wine", in which main character, Douglas Spaulding, gradually turns into an adult man. And during this period of growing up, the line separating the youth and the elderly becomes clearly visible. In the words of bradbury the idea of this 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 name arose immediately: “Summer, Goodbye". So, all these years, the second part of “Dandelion Wine” has matured to such a state when, from my point of view, it is not a shame to reveal it to the world. I patiently waited for these chapters of the novel to be overgrown with new thoughts and images that give liveliness to the entire text, ”said bradbury.
9 DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS (1985)
The setting and time of this detective novel is Venice, California, 1949. A series of brutal murders, no doubt connected, attracts the attention of an aspiring writer, no doubt copied from the very beginning. 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 abilities for the detective genre, and also shows his 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 at the time, and kept a close eye on the story.
10. THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (1953)
This is the third collection of short 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 reduced to the background. In total, the collection includes 22 wonderful stories, including "Howler", "Pedestrian", "Killer" and other stories. By the way, "Golden Apples of the Sun" is dedicated to the woman who most influenced the writer's creative path - his aunt Neva.
greatest glory bradbury brought his fiction, creative and contemplative at the same time, in which he imagined a future world inhabited by Martians with telepathic abilities, book burners and sea monsters in love. And this futuristic writer categorically protested against the translation of his books into electronic form. Maybe, Ray Bradbury he was afraid that such a passion for technology was the first step towards his dystopia of the future.
