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# Science fiction legend and space dreamer Ray Bradbury dies at 91.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/science-fiction-legend-and-space-dreamer-ray-bradbury-dies-91/
- Published: 2012-06-06T15:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:33.000Z
- Description: A sad loss and a man who certainly inspired a generation of game designers. NYT describes Bradbury as a shrewd popularizer of science-fiction: Mr. Bradbury was hardly the first writer to represent science and technology as a mixed bag of blessings and abominations. The advent of the atomic bomb in
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A sad loss and a man who certainly inspired a generation of game designers. *NYT*  describes Bradbury as a [shrewd popularizer of science-fiction](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/ray-bradbury-popularizer-of-science-fiction-dies-at-91.html?hp&ref=killscreen.com):

> Mr. Bradbury was hardly the first writer to represent science and technology as a mixed bag of blessings and abominations. The advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 left many Americans deeply ambivalent toward science. The same “super science” that had ended [World War II](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/world%5Fwar%5Fii%5F/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier&ref=killscreen.com) now appeared to threaten the very existence of civilization. Science-fiction writers, who were accustomed to thinking about the role of science in society, had trenchant things to say about this threat.  
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> But the audience for science fiction, published mostly in pulp magazines, was small and insignificant. Mr. Bradbury looked to a larger audience: the readers of mass-circulation magazines like Mademoiselle and The Saturday Evening Post. These readers had no patience for the technical jargon of the science fiction pulps. So he eliminated the jargon; he packaged his troubling speculations about the future in an appealing blend of cozy colloquialisms and poetic metaphors.

Here’s Bradbury on [WHYY’s Fresh Air from 1988](http://www.npr.org/2000/11/17/1114088/writer-ray-bradbury?ref=killscreen.com). And more from a keynote from at The Sixth Annual Writer’s Symposium by the Sea:

> I’ve never worked a day in my life. I’ve never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to year. I want you to envy me, my joy. Get out of here tonight and say: “Am I being joyful?” And if you’ve got a writer’s block, you can cure it this evening by stopping whatever you’re writing and doing something else. You picked the wrong subject.

[Video](http://youtu.be/%5FW-r7ABrMYU?ref=killscreen.com)