'Changing everything for everybody'

 

“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world, you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.” – Ray Bradbury

 

Born in Waukegan, IL in 1920, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and 21st-century Science Fiction writers, winning numerous awards, including a 2007 Pulitizer Prize.  He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space.  Many of his works were adapted to comic book, television and film formats.

  

And, of course, he wrote the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and the series The Martian Chronicles. At the time of his death in 2012, The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream."

     

 One of our country’s strongest advocates for the public library system, Bradbury said he spent three days a week for 10 years educating himself in the public library, “And it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”