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|  #2 Posted on 6.6.12 1042.34 | Instant Rating: 9.39 | Oh, man, that is SO irony.
No, wait, it isn't.
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   | Matt Tracker
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| #3 Posted on 6.6.12 1048.32 | Instant Rating: 7.92 | The amount of material he produced is staggering. I bet everyone knows a Bradbury story even if they don't know it's a Bradbury story. The electric grandmother? Something Wicked This Way Comes? The Veldt? A dominant talent in a genre packed with giant names. Mid-century scifi is a metropolis of skyscraper authors, and Bradbury might be the Empire State Building of them all.
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| #4 Posted on 6.6.12 1516.54 | Instant Rating: 9.76 | Originally posted by Matt Tracker
The amount of material he produced is staggering. I bet everyone knows a Bradbury story even if they don't know it's a Bradbury story. The electric grandmother? Something Wicked This Way Comes? The Veldt? A dominant talent in a genre packed with giant names. Mid-century scifi is a metropolis of skyscraper authors, and Bradbury might be the Empire State Building of them all.
He along with Asimov were my introduction to "Real" SciFi.
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