Offscreen Notes
Ray Bradbury 1920-2012
The world of fantasy has lost one of its greatest figures, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2012 at the age of 91. Bradbury spanned the golden age of Fantasy and carved himself a huge place in the annals of what he would describe “science fantasy” (as opposed to science fiction, hard science or fantasy). His work touched every possible medium, pulp fiction, radio, literature, theater, poetry, television, motion pictures, including great shows like The Twilight Zone, as a mini-series (The Martian Chronicles, his own anthology TV series, the films Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man, and many more. I will always remember him along with two of his favorite long time friends, Ray Harryhausen and Forrest J Ackerman. Only Harryhausen the —the only one of them I’ve actually met— is still alive. Soon, but hopefully not too soon, a real era of fantasy will be over.
