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“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”

— Ray Bradbury

"It was a pleasure to burn."

“A witch is born out of the true hungers of her time.”

— Ray Bradbury, Long After Midnight, 1976

"My stories run up and bite me in the leg — I respond by writing them down — everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off."

Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22nd August 1920-2012)

Ray Bradbury - Dark Carnival. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948. First British edition. Octavo.

Art by Michael Ayrton.

A Medicine for Melancholy, Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles - art by Ian Miller (1979)

"Science fiction is the art of the possible."

—Ray Bradbury, born on this day in 1920

"To think that thought could live that long! A million years, perhaps, all these thoughts of death and disorder and conquest, lingering in the innocent but poisonous air of the planet, waiting for a real man to give them a channel through which they might issue again in all their senseless virulence."

Asleep in Armageddon, Ray Bradbury