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What? He can’t die. He’s immortal. He has more books to write. <\/em>These thoughts zipped through my head when I first read about his death on Huffington Post. I\u00a0 was stunned. I mean, please, this writer is supposed to be immortal.<\/p>\n

Does he need an intro? Probably not. But just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the last 40 years, read about him here. <\/a>My first exposure to Bradbury was somewhere in the early 1960s, when we were living in Venezuela. A friend handed me Farenheit 451 and\u00a0 whispered, “You want to write, Trish? Then you gotta read this book.”<\/p>\n

There was something strangely furtive and subversive about this exchange, out in a middle school hallway. Maybe the book had been banned already. Maybe this girl’s parents objected to it. Whatever, I took the book and once I opened it, couldn’t put it down.<\/p>\n

As a writer, Bradbury changed my idea of what’s possible in novels. On a human level, he put me on alert about the insidious ways that governments manipulate the dissemination of ideas. Later on, in college, I remember watching the movie version of Farenheit 451<\/em> and enjoying it as much as I had the book. The ideas stuck with me. In The Hunger Games,<\/em> there’s a kind of tribute to Bradbury in a book-burning reference.<\/p>\n

When I read The Martian Chronicles<\/em>, well, I was there<\/em>, on Mars, and I felt what those characters felt,\u00a0 lived alongside them. In Something Wicked This Way Comes,\u00a0 <\/em>in all of his beautifully written books, I was reminded about the magnificence of language, about the incomprehensible imagination that poses a question – What if? – and runs with it in a way that speaks universally.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Bradbury’s greatest gift was that he could present complex ideas in stories so beautifully written, through the eyes of characters so real,\u00a0 that we were engaged from page one. Even if you aren’t a sci-fi fan, you’ve probably read Farenheit 451,<\/em> now a staple in many high school reading lists. But in the event that you’ve never met this guy and his books, then by all means treat yourself to\u00a0 the bonanza that is Bradbury. You will never see the world in quite the same way again. And for a writer, is there any greater compliment?<\/p>\n

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Drop by Daz’s<\/a> blog for more treats about Bradbury. Daz beat us to it on this post.<\/p>\n

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And we can’t forget about another writer today. HAPPY B-DAY Trish!!! From Rob, Megan and the animal gang (Noah, Nica, Simba, Tiger Lil, and Powder).<\/p>\n

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