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  1. The spider scene in this scared the absolute bejesus out of me in elementary school.

    Also, Mr. Dark is kind of...hot now? I literally have not seen this since at least the nineties.

    #Halloween #RayBradbury #GatewayHorror #Horror #Cinemastodon #SWTWC

  2. #NowWatching Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983). The quintessential* October movie.

    *although it's impossible to listen to the voiceover without thinking of Bradbury's visits to @bitterkarella's #MidnightPals now

    #Halloween #RayBradbury #GatewayHorror #Horror #Cinemastodon

  3. Back when I worked for a small, local library in 2017, I set up a display for #BannedBooksWeek (but left the display up for a month). And yeah... Back then, I did NOT know that JK Rowling was a TERF, but did know that some of the local fundamentalist Christians thought that Harry Potter was the work of the devil -- so, of course I had to include it in the display!

    #GeorgeOrwell #NineteenEightFour #MarkTwain #CatcherInTheRye #TheHandmaidsTale #TheHungerGames #ToKillAMockingbird #TheGreatGatsby #KiteRunner #HuckleberryFinn #HarryPotter #JDSalinger #MargaretAtwood #BannedBooks #LibrariesRule #RayBradbury #Fahrenheit451 #BanningBooksSilencesStories

  4. A quotation from Ray Bradbury

    But you can’t make people listen. They have to come ’round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them.

    Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist
    Fahrenheit 451, Part 3 “Burning Bright” [Granger] (1953)

    More about this quote: wist.info/bradbury-ray/86212/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bradbury #raybradbury #changeofheart #changeofmind #comearound #hearing #listening #patience #progress #understanding #waiting

  5. This Masterpiece by @Rachelbloom needs to be rediscovered every now and then

    It's called, Fuck me, Ray Bradbury

    youtu.be/e1IxOS4VzKM

    #sci-fi #MusicalComedy #raybradbury #Fahrenheit451

  6. 🔥 FAHRENHEIT 451 – Ray Bradbury

    In a world where books are banned and firemen burn knowledge, one man dares to question the system.
    A timeless dystopian classic that warns against censorship and celebrates the power of ideas.

    📘 Available in digital format.
    🌐 See the link in my profile 👆

    #Ebooks #Fahrenheit451 #RayBradbury #socialmedia #bookstodon

  7. MetWalkers Book Club gets ready for spooky season with Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes’
    metropolitan-walkers.org.uk
    #ramblersgb #bookclub #raybradbury #spooky #october

  8. The Censor Keeps a Copy

    Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/05/the-

  9. Yours for a mere £2,200. Anthologist-supreme Peter Haining's own copy of the rare Arkham House edition of the first book by Ray Bradbury, 'Dark Carnival'. As you can see, it is signed and dedicated by Bradbury with a jolly drawing of a monster.
    #RayBradbury #Bradbury #BookChatWeekly #booksky

  10. Yours for a mere £2,200. Anthologist-supreme Peter Haining's own copy of the rare Arkham House edition of the first book by Ray Bradbury, 'Dark Carnival'. As you can see, it is signed and dedicated by Bradbury with a jolly drawing of a monster.
    #RayBradbury #Bradbury #BookChatWeekly #booksky

  11. El asombro y la maravilla, van acompañados en este libro por la melancolía y la impotencia. El racismo, la censura, el fanatismo, la explotación y el lugar del ser humano en el cosmos son algunos de los temas que aborda Bradbury, teniendo como escenario a nuestro mundo hermano, pero también a la Tierra y al espacio entre ellos.

    #libros #literatura #cienciaficcion #raybradbury

    maikciveira.com/2012/07/cuatro

  12. Born this day: 08/22/1920 (d. 06/05/2012) Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 10th SFWA Grand Master. The Martian Chronicles was nominated for the 1981 Hugo (4th place)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Brad

    #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
    #RayBradbury @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

    astralcomputing.com

    Art by Arthur Lidov

  13. "The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love."

    ~ Ray Bradbury, born today, 1920.

    #RayBradbury #Quote #Today

  14. Ray Bradbury Day 🎂

    En 1984, el célebre diseñador Saul Bass y su esposa Elaine Bass estrenaron “Quest”, un corto de 30 minutos de ci-fi distópica con guion de Ray Bradbury, visualmente imponente y con la curiosidad de estar protagonizado por Noah Hathaway, 'Atreyu' en “La historia interminable”, estrenada ese mismo año.
    Si os apetece verlo, lo tenéis íntegro en YouTube. Está en V.O., pero carece casi de diálogos, así que no hay mayor problema. 😘
    youtu.be/K212e9GluJU?si=tJWOvU
    .
    #libros #books #cine #movies #raybradbury #writers #saulbass #arte #art #cinema

  15. 🗓️ Tal dia com avui (1920 -2012) va néixer en Ray "Douglas" Bradbury (poeta, prosista, escriptor, guionista, assagista, novel·lista i dramaturg)
    ✍️ FèSäCó

    «Hi ha només dues coses amb què un es pot ficar al llit: una persona i un llibre»
    ✍️ Ray Bradbury

    #efemèride
    #efemèrides
    #RayBradbury
    #taldiacomavui
    #RayDouglasBradbury

  16. Die klügste Widerstandshandlung gegen die Zerstörung von Büchern ist übrigens der Aufbau einer eigenen kleinen (oder sehr großen) #Bibliothek.
    .......................... würde Guy Montag sagen
    📘 📗 📕 📙 📚 📚 📚 📚 🔖 📖
    #Fahrenheit451 #RayBradbury #KI #Amazon #Antiquariat #Buch #Bücher

  17. En los 50 se estaba perfilando una época de “cacería de brujas” por parte de los sectores más reaccionarios, que incluyó la persecución de gran cantidad de libros. Por aquellos días muchos libros fueron retirados de las bibliotecas y escuelas públicas, entre ellos Robin Hood, que por aquello de “robar a los ricos para darle a los pobres” era considerado propaganda comunista

    #libros #cienciaficcion #raybradbury

    maikciveira.com/2012/06/bradbu

  18. In 1953, the science fiction author Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, in which he imagined a dystopian future where people are surrounded by screens and fed with short video content.

    #books #libri #meta #raybradbury #socialmedia #tiktok

  19. Laut dem bereits verstorbenen Science-Fiction-Autor Ray Bradbury ist der 4. August 2026 „Der Tag der Abrechnung“. Was haben humanoide Roboter damit zu tun? #sfcd #sciencefiction #roboter #raybradbury

    Science-Fiction trifft auf Rea...

  20. Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over, “Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is …”

    short-stories.co/@raybradbury/

    #RayBradbury

  21. Building a #VampireTheMasquerade omni-chronicle (which will contain smaller chronicles and one shots) covering the Midwest (Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, the goblin roads between). Calling it VAMPIRE: A MIDWEST GOTHIC and opening the welcome page with this quote.

    #ttrpg
    #vtm
    #RayBradbury

  22. Hey everybody, in case you missed it, today: August 4, 2026 is the exact day Ray #Bradbury picked to end the world, 76 years ago.

    "There Will Come Soft Rains" 's title was a nod to Sara #Teasdale's "There Will Come Soft Rains," written in 1918 in reflection of the losses of the First World War and the influenza pandemic, and premised that the natural world would barely register humanity's disappearance.

    Here's a pdf link, in case you'd like to reread it. It, in my opinion, is among the best short stories every written. (Granted, I'm a Bradbury fan girl.)

    users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/B

    #fiction #scifi #alternatehistory #RayBradbury #ThereWillComeSoftRains

  23. There Will Come Soft Rains

    In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1:

    There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
    And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
    And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
    And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
    Robins will wear their feathery fire,
    Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
    And not one will know of the war, not one
    Will care at last when it is done.
    Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
    If mankind perished utterly;
    And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
    Would scarcely know that we were gone.

    by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

    The Ray Bradbury story is set in the (then) distant future and describes, in a typically eery and unsettling way, the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. One house, in Allendale Carlifornia, fully automated to provide for the comfort of its owners, carries on functioning after the owners are both vapourised by a nuclear blast. Beds continue to be made, meals prepared, floors cleaned, and dishes washed, by systems oblivious to the fact the owners are no more. The house recites to the ladyof the house one of her favoruite poems, There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale. Then a fire starts by accident and the house burns to the ground.

    I was reminded today that the date of the story (in the original version) is August 4, 2026. I looked for my copy of The Martian Chronicles when I got home but couldn’t find it. Here, however, are the opening few paragraphs:

    The full text of the story can be found here (among a number of other places). It’s out of copyright.

    #RayBradbury #SaraTeasdale #ScienceFiction #ThereWillComeSoftRains
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