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Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into comic books, television shows and films. Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, to Esther (Moberg) Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant, and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a power and telephone lineman of English descent. He was given the middle name "Douglas," after the actor Douglas Fairbanks. Ray Bradbury was surrounded by a loving extended family during his early childhood and formative years in Waukegan. This period provided foundations for both the author and his stories. In Bradbury's works of fiction, 1920s Waukegan becomes "Green Town," Illinois. In his stories, Green Town is a symbol of safety and home, which is often juxtaposed as a contrasting backdrop to tales of fantasy or menace. It serves as the setting of his modern classics Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer. In Green Town, Bradbury's favorite uncle sprouts wings, traveling carnivals conceal supernatural powers, and his grandparents provide room and board to Charles Dickens. Perhaps the most definitive usage of the pseudonym for his hometown, in Summer Morning, Summer Night, a collection of short stories and vignettes exclusively about Green Town, Bradbury returns to the signature locale as a look back at the rapidly disappearing small-town world of the American heartland, which was the foundation of his roots. Between 1926 and 1933, the Bradbury family moved back and forth between Waukegan and Tucson, Arizona. In 1931, at age eleven, young Ray began writing his own stories. The country was going through the Great Depression, and sometimes Bradbury wrote on butcher paper. The Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1934. Bradbury was related to the American Shakespeare scholar Douglas Spaulding. He was also descended from Mary Bradbury, who was tried at one of the Salem witch trials in 1692. She was married to Captain Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts. The Bradbury family lived in Tucson, Arizona, in 1926–1927 and 1932–1933 as the father pursued employment, each time returning to Waukegan, but eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1934, when Bradbury was 14. The family arrived with only 40 dollars, which paid for rent and food until his father finally found a job making wire at a cable company for $14 a week. This meant they could stay and Bradbury, who was in love with Hollywood, was ecstatic. The family lived about four blocks from the Uptown Theater on Western Avenue in Los Angeles, the flagship theater for MGM and Fox. There, Bradbury learned how to sneak in and watched previews almost every week. He roller-skated there as well as all over town, as he put it "hell-bent on getting autographs from glamorous stars. It was glorious." Among stars the young Bradbury was thrilled to encounter were Norma Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, and Ronald Colman. Sometimes he would spend all day in front of Paramount Pictures or Columbia Pictures and then skate to the Brown Derby to watch the stars who came and went for meals. He recounted seeing Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West, who he would learn made a regular appearance every Friday night, bodyguard in tow. Bradbury was a reader and writer throughout his youth. He knew as a young boy that he was "going into one of the arts." In 1932, one of Bradbury's earliest influences was Edgar Allan Poe. At age twelve, Bradbury began writing traditional horror stories and said he tried to imitate Poe until he was about eighteen. At the time, his favorites were also Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Carter, as well as comic books. He listened to the radio show Chandu the Magician, and when the show went off the air every night he would sit and write the entire script from memory. In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes. He loved Burroughs' The Warlord of Mars so much that at the age of 12 he wrote his own sequel. The young Bradbury was also a cartoonist and loved to illustrate. He wrote about Tarzan and drew his own Sunday panels. When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences. Bradbury identified with Verne, saying, "He believes the human being is in a strange situation in a very strange world, and he believes that we can triumph by behaving morally." Bradbury admitted he stopped reading genre books in his twenties and embraced a broad field of literature that included Alexander Pope and poet John Donne. An aunt read him short stories when he was a child. He used this library as a setting for much of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and depicted Waukegan as "Green Town" in some of his other semi-autobiographical novels — Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer — as well as in many of his short stories. He attributed to two incidents his lifelong habit of writing every day. The first of these, occurring when he was three years old, was his mother's taking him to see Lon Chaney's performance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The second incident occurred in 1932, when a carnival entertainer, one Mr. Electrico, touched the young man on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, "Live forever!" Bradbury remarked, "I felt that something strange and wonderful had happened to me because of my encounter with Mr. Electrico...[he] gave me a future...I began to write, full-time. I have written every single day of my life since that day 69 years ago." It was at that age that Bradbury first started to do magic, which was his first great love. If he had not discovered writing, he would have become a magician. Bradbury claimed a wide variety of influences, and described discussions he might have with his favorite poets and writers Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, and Thomas Wolfe. From Steinbeck, he said he learned "how to write objectively and yet insert all of the insights without too much extra comment." He studied Eudora Welty for her "remarkable ability to give you atmosphere, character, and motion in a single line." Bradbury's favorite writers growing up included Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote about the American South, Edith Wharton, and Jessamyn West. He often said he was a fantasy writer, not a science fiction writer, and numerous times is quoted stating "The only science fiction I've written is Fahrenheit 451", elucidating "science fiction is the art of the possible." Bradbury recounted when he came into his own as a writer, the afternoon he wrote a short story about his first encounter with death. When he was a boy, he met a young girl at the beach and she went out into the water and never came back. Years later, as he wrote about it, tears flowed from him. He recognized he had taken the leap from emulating the many writers he admired to connecting with his voice as a writer. When the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1934, Bradbury attended Los Angeles High School and was active in the drama club. Bradbury often roller-skated through Hollywood in hopes of meeting celebrities. Among the creative and talented people Bradbury met this way were special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen and radio star George Burns. Bradbury's first pay as a writer was at the age of fourteen, when Burns hired him to write for the Burns and Allen show. In 1936, at a secondhand bookstore in Hollywood, Ray Bradbury discovered a handbill promoting meetings of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society. Thrilled to find there were others with his interests, at the age of sixteen Bradbury joined a weekly Thursday-night conclave. Bradbury began submitting his short stories for publication. After a rejection notice from the pulp magazine Weird Tales, Bradbury submitted to magazines. At Mademoiselle magazine, a young editorial assistant named Truman Capote spotted one of Bradbury's short stories, "Homecoming'". Capote picked the Bradbury manuscript from a slush pile, which led to it getting published in the magazine. Homecoming won a place in The O. Henry Prize Stories of 1947. Bradbury had just graduated from high school when he met Robert Heinlein, then 31 years old. Bradbury recalled, "He was well known, and he wrote humanistic science fiction, which influenced me to dare to be human instead of mechanical." His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma", which appeared in the January 1938 number of Forrest J. Ackerman's fanzine Imagination!. In July 1939, Ackerman gave nineteen-year-old Ray Bradbury the money to head to New York for the First World Science Fiction Convention in New York City, and funded Ray Bradbury's fanzine, titled Futuria Fantasia. Bradbury wrote most of its four issues, each limited to under 100 copies.[citation needed]Between 1940 and 1947, he was a contributor to Rob Wagner's film magazine, Script. Ray Bradbury was free to start a career in writing when, owing to his bad eyesight, he was rejected admission into the military during World War II. Having been inspired by science fiction heroes like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, Bradbury began to publish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by Forrest J. Ackerman to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met at Clifton's Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson. In 1939 Bradbury joined Laraine Day's Wilshire Players Guild where for two years he wrote and acted in several plays. They were, as Bradbury later described, "so incredibly bad" that he gave up playwriting for two decades. Bradbury's first paid piece, "Pendulum," written with Henry Hasse, was published in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in November 1941, for which he earned $15. Ray Bradbury was married to Marguerite McClure (January 16, 1922 – November 24, 2003) from 1947 until her death; they had four daughters: Susan, Ramona, Bettina and Alexandra. Bradbury never obtained a driver's license. He lived at home until he was twenty-seven and married. His wife of fifty-six years, Maggie, as she was affectionately called, was the only woman Bradbury ever dated. Bradbury was a close friend of Charles Addams, and Addams illustrated the first of Bradbury's stories about the Elliotts, a family that would resemble Addams' own Addams Family placed in rural Illinois. Bradbury's first story about them was "Homecoming," published in the 1946 Halloween issue of Mademoiselle, with Addams illustrations. He and Addams planned a larger collaborative work that would tell the family's complete history, but it never materialized, and according to a 2001 interview, they went their separate ways. In October 2001, Bradbury published all the Family stories he had written in one book with a connecting narrative, From the Dust Returned, featuring a wraparound Addams cover of the original "Homecoming" illustration. Another close friend was animator Ray Harryhausen, who was best man at Bradbury's wedding. During a BAFTA 2010 awards tribute in honor of Ray Harryhausen's 90th birthday, Bradbury spoke of his first meeting Harryhausen at Forrest J Ackerman's house when they were both 18 years old. Their shared love for science fiction, King Kong, and the King Vidor-directed film The Fountainhead, written by Ayn Rand, was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. These early influences inspired the pair to believe in themselves and affirm their career choices. Since their first meeting, they kept in touch at least once a month, spanning over 70 years of friendship. In later years, Bradbury retained his dedication and passion despite what he described as the "devastation of illnesses and deaths of many good friends." Among the losses that deeply grieved Bradbury was the death of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who was an intimate friend for many years. They remained close friends for nearly three decades after Roddenberry asked him to write for Star Trek, which Bradbury never did, stating he "never had the ability to adapt other people's ideas into any sensible form." Bradbury suffered a stroke in 1999 that left him partially dependent on a wheelchair for mobility. Despite this he continued to write, and had even written an essay on his inspiration for writing for The New Yorker published only a week prior to his death. Bradbury made regular appearances at science fiction conventions until 2009, when he retired from the circuit. Bradbury died in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, after a lengthy illness. The New York Times' obituary stated that Bradbury was "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream." The Los Angeles Times credited Bradbury with the ability "to write lyrically and evocatively of lands an imagination away, worlds he anchored in the here and now with a sense of visual clarity and small-town familiarity". Bradbury's grandson, Danny Karapetian, stated that Bradbury's works had "influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it's always really touching and comforting to hear their stories". The Washington Post hallmarked several modern day technologies that Bradbury had envisioned much earlier in his writing, such as the idea of banking ATMs and earbuds and Bluetooth headsets from Fahrenheit 451, and the concepts of artificial intelligence within I Sing the Body Electric. Several celebrity fans of Bradbury paid tribute to the author by stating the influence of his works on their own careers and creations. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg stated that Bradbury was "[his] muse for the better part of [his] sci-fi career.... On the world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination he is immortal". Writer Neil Gaiman felt that "the landscape of the world we live in would have been diminished if we had not had him in our world". Author Stephen King released a statement on his website saying, "Ray Bradbury wrote three great novels and three hundred great stories. One of the latter was called 'A Sound of Thunder.' The sound I hear today is the thunder of a giant's footsteps fading away.
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Crumley Mysteries
Ray Bradbury - Death Is A Lonely Business (read by Robert O'Keefe) Ray Bradbury - A Graveyard For Lunatics (read by Ray Pleshey)
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Other novels
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (read by Christopher Hurt) Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine (read by Stephen Hoye) Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes (read by Stefan Rudnicki) Ray Bradbury - The Halloween Tree (read by June Carter) Ray Bradbury - From The Dust Returned (read by John Glover) Ray Bradbury - Farewell Summer (read by Robert Fass) Ray Bradbury - Now And Forever (read by Paul Hecht)
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Short Stories Collection
Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles (read by Stephen Hoye) Rocket Summer Ylla The Summer Night The Earth Men The Taxpayer The Third Expedition And the Moon Be Still as Bright The Settlers The Green Morning The Locusts Night Meeting The Shore The Fire Balloons Interim The Musicians Way in the Middle of the Air The Naming of Names Usher II The Old Ones The Martian The Luggage Store The Off Season The Watchers The Silent Towns The Long Years There Will Come Soft Rains The Million-Year Picnic Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man (read by Paul Michael Garcia) Illustrated Man 01 The Veldt Illustrated Man 02 Kaleidoscope Illustrated Man 03 The Other Foot The Highway The Man The Long Rain The Rocket Man The Fire Balloons The Last Night of the World The Exiles No Particular Night or Morning The Fox and the Forest The Visitor The Concrete Mixer Marionettes, Inc. The City Zero Hour The Rocket Illustrated Man 04 Ray Bradbury - The Golden Apples Of The Sun (read by Michael Prichard) The Fog Horn The Pedestrian The April Witch The Wilderness The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl Invisible Boy The Flying Machine The Murderer The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind I See You Never Embroidery The Big Black and White Game A Sound of Thunder The Great Wide World Over There Powerhouse En La Noche Sun and Shadow The Meadow The Garbage Collector The Great Fire Hail and Farewell The Golden Apples of the Sun Ray Bradbury - I Sing The Body Electric! (read by Robert Donley) The Kilimanjaro Device The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place Tomorrow's Child The Women The Inspired Chicken Motel Downwind from Gettysburg Yes, We'll Gather at the River The Cold Wind and the Warm Night Call, Collect The Haunting of the New I Sing the Body Electric! The Tombling Day Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine Heavy-Set The Man in the Rorschach Shirt Henry the Ninth The Lost City of Mars Christus Apollo Ray Bradbury - Long After Midnight (read by Ken Kliban) The Blue Bottle One Timeless Spring The Parrot Who Met Papa The Burning Man A Piece of Wood The Messiah G.B.S.-Mark V The Utterly Perfect Murder Punishment Without Crime Getting Through Sunday Somehow Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds Interval in Sunlight A Story of Love The Wish Forever and the Earth The Better Part of Wisdom Darling Adolf The Miracles of Jamie The October Game The Pumpernickel Long After Midnight Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You! Ray Bradbury - Fantastic Tales Of Ray Bradbury (read by Ray Bradbury) The Lake The Smile The Fog Horn The Veldt The Crowd John Huff's Leavetaking Illuminations The Illustrated Man Marionettes, Inc. The Pedestrian The Dwarf There Will Come Soft Rains A Sound of Thunder Fever Dream Ray Bradbury - The Toynbee Convector (read by Barry Bernson) The Toynbee Convector Trapdoor On the Orient, North One Night in Your Life West of October The Last Circus The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair I Suppose You Are Wondering Why We Are Here? Lafayette, Farewell Banshee Promises, Promises The Love Affair One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! At Midnight, in the Month of June Bless Me Father, for I Have Sinned By the Numbers! A Touch of Petulance Long Division Come, and Bring Constance! Junior The Tombstone The Thing at the Top of the Stairs Colonel Stonesteels Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy Ray Bradbury - Driving Blind (read by L. J. Ganser) Night Train to Babylon If MGM Is Killed, Who Gets the Lion? Hello, I Must Be Going House Divided Grand Theft Remember Me? Fee Fie Foe Fum Driving Blind I Wonder What's Become of Sally Nothing Changes That Old Dog Lying in the Dust Someone in the Rain Madame Et Monsieur Shill The Mirror End of Summer Thunder in the Morning The Highest Branch on the Tree A Woman Is a Fast-Moving Picnic Virgin Resusitas Mr. Pale That Bird That Comes Out of the Clock A Brief Afterword Ray Bradbury - One More For The Road (read by Campbell Scott) First Day Heart Transplant Quid Pro Quo After the Ball In Memoriam Tête-à-Tête The Dragon Danced at Midnight The Nineteenth Beasts Autumn Afternoon Where All Is Emptiness There Is Room to Move One-Woman Show The Laurel and Hardy Alpha Centauri Farewell Tour Leftovers One More for the Road Tangerine With Smiles as Wide as Summer Time Intervening The Enemy in the Wheat Fore! My Son, Max The F. Scott/Tolstoy/Ahab Accumulator Well, What Do You Have to Say for Yourself? Diane de Forêt The Cricket on the Hearth Afterword: Metaphors, the Breakfast of Champions Ray Bradbury - The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (read by Michael Russotto) Alive and Kicking and Writing Chrysalis The Island Sometime Before Dawn Hail to the Chief We'll Just Act Natural Ole, Orozco! Siqueiros, Si! The House The John Wilkes Booth/Warner Brothers/MGM/NBC Funeral Train A Careful Man Dies The Cat's Pajamas Triangle The Mafioso Cement-Mixing Machine The Ghosts Where's My Hat, What's My Hurry? The Transformation Sixty-Six A Matter of Taste I Get the Blues When it Rains (A Remembrance) All My Enemies are Dead The Completist The R.B., G.K.C., and G.B.S. Forever Orient ExpressRay Bradbury - Five Stories (read by Adam Muskin) Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed The Town Where No One Got Off Here There Be Tygers The Day It Rained Forever Fever Dream Ray Bradbury - We'll Always Have Paris (read by Jesse Bernstein, Mark Bramhall, Mark Cashmen and Kirsten Potter) Massinello Pietro The Visit The Twilight Greens The Murder When the Bough Breaks We'll Always Have Paris Ma Perkins Comes to Stay Doubles Pater Caninus Arrivals and Departures Last Laughs Pietà Summer Fly Away Home Un-pillow Talk Come Away With Me Apple-Core Baltimore The Reincarnate Remembrance, Ohio Miss Appletree and I A Literary Encounter America Ray Bradbury - A Pleasure To Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (read by Scott Brick) The Reincarnate Pillar of Fire The Library Bright Phoenix The Mad Wizards of Mars Carnival of Madness Bonfire The Cricket on the Hearth The Pedestrian The Garbage Collector The Smile Long After Midnight The Fireman The Dragon Who Ate His Tail Sometime Before Dawn To the Future Ray Bradbury - I Sing The Body Electric! and Other Stories (read by D ick Hill) The Kilimanjaro Device The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place Tomorrow's Child The Women The Inspired Chicken Motel Downwind from Gettysburg Yes, We'll Gather at the River The Cold Wind and the Warm Night Call, Collect The Haunting of the New I Sing the Body Electric! The Tombling Day Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine Heavy-Set The Man in the Rorschach Shirt Henry the Ninth The Lost City of Mars The Blue Bottle One Timeless Spring The Parrot Who Met Papa The Burning Man A Piece of Wood The Messiah G.B.S.-Mark V The Utterly Perfect Murder Punishment Without Crime Getting Through Sunday Somehow Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds Christus Apollo Ray Bradbury - The Strawberry Window And Other Stories (read by Adam Muskin) The Strawberry Window Referent Perchance to Dream The Smile The Dragon The Headpiece The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit Ray Bradbury - Individual Short stories (read by Various narrators) I See You Never The Creatures That Time Forgot The Man Upstairs Kaleidoscope Marionettes, Inc. The Veldt There Will Come Soft Rains Usher II A Sound of Thunder The April Witch All Summer In A Day A Touch of Petulance Of Absence, Darkness, Death: Things Which Are Not Driving Blind Momento Mori Obituary
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