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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury has died.
As they said on the radio, he was probably best known for novels like Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. But the first of his books I read was The Day it Rained Forever, one of his many books of short stories. I think of him as a short story writer rather than a novelist. Each story took one remarkable idea and executed it perfectly. My favourite of his novels is Dandelion Wine, which is actually more like a themed collection of short stories, on growing up in small-town America between the wars, a subject to which he often returned.
He had an astonishing way with words. At one time I tried to write like he did, though now I see that would be quite impossible.
In the title story of The Day it Rained Forever, three dried-up old men in a…
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