Ray Bradbury

Person · Open Library

Born

22 August 1920

Died

5 June 2012

Works

799

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1920-08-22

Active to

2012-06-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,928

Total plays

41,649

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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ray+Bradbury">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales

   · 2022 · cited 11,684x

2. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,996x

3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,801x

4. Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases

   · 2009 · cited 10,012x

5. Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications

   · 2002 · cited 9,339x

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Quotes

• “There they go, off to Venus, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future. What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal.”
• “The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.”
• “Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”
• “Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.”
• “My first decision about a career was at eleven, to be a and travel the world with my .My second decision was at twelve when I got a toy typewriter for Christmas.And I decided to become a . And between the decision and the reality lay eight years of junior high school, high school, and selling newspapers on a street corner in Los Angeles, while I wrote three million words.”
• “All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green…”

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