Death of Ray Bradbury

August 22, 1920 - June 6, 2012
Los Angeles, California | Age 91

Science fiction novelist dies in California
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DERRIK J. LANG, The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If there's one place where Ray Bradbury's legacy is tangible, it's the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

While he denounced video games as "a waste of time for men with nothing else to do," it's impossible not to consider the flashing flatscreens, ubiquitous cameras and people wearing extraterrestrial costumes inside the Los Angeles Convention Center this week and not be reminded of Bradbury's high-tech foreshadowing and...

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