Ray Bradbury - 1920-2012

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Ray Bradbury, a boundlessly imaginative novelist who wrote some of the most popular science fiction books of all time, including ***8220;Fahrenheit 451***8221; and ***8220;The Martian Chronicles,***8221; and who transformed the genre of flying saucers and little green men into a medium exploring childhood terrors, colonialism and the erosion of individual thought, died June 5. He was 91.

Mr. Bradbury, I owe my love of reading to you. You opened all of the doors to the universe to me as a young man. I'll never let them close.

Thank you. And may you rest in peace.