Ray Bradbury Birthday Anniversary!

On this day, August 22 in 1920, the great American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was born just over the Wisconsin border in  Waukegan, Illinois. He would go on to become what The New York Times called “the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream,“ with such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). He died in 2012 at the venerable age of 91.

To memorialize Ray Bradbury’s birth, we present some images from a 1983 collection of stories and poems related to the author’s earliest childhood and life-long fascination with dinosaurs in Dinosaur Tales, published by Bantam Books. The collection includes the short stories "Besides A Dinosaur, Whatta Ya Wanna Be When You Grow Up?” (1983), ”The Fog Horn“ (1951), "Tyrannosaurus Rex,” originally published as “The Prehistoric Producer” (1962), Bradbury’s classic time-travel, “butterfly effect” story “A Sound of Thunder” (1952), and a new poetic collaboration with the legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson, “What If I Said: The Dinosaur’s Not Dead?” Other illustrations in this book are by William Stout, Steranko, Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith and David Wiesner. Click on the images for the attributions.

Happy Birthday Anniversary, Ray Bradbury!

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