The Martian Chronicles

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Ray Bradbury Dies at 91

Originally posted 06/06/2012 11:05AM

Ray Bradbury, the prolific science-fiction author who not only dreamed of going to Mars but wrote about living there in a manner that evoked the best of Jules Verne, L. Frank Baum and H.G. Wells, died Tuesday night in Southern California, his daughter confirmed to the Associated Press. He was 91.

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The author of The Martian Chronicles, a collection of short stories about expatriates from a post-apocolyptic earth, (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953), about a complacent society's abolition of individual thought, was born to a lineman for a utility company and his wife in Waukegan, Ill.