Oh, no... Ray Bradbury's gone...

http://io9.com/5916175/rip-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles

Ray Bradbury died this morning in Los Angeles, at the age of 91.

I guess, I was hoping he'll just keep living forever...

91 is a very respectable age, let us all get there, and frankly, most people I guess, didn't even realize he was still alive till now, so firmly he was in the past, classical age of science fiction. But he was also our tie between the past and the future. Between our childhood optimism and sad middle age, the warm bright flame in the dark thoughts about humans' future.

HE was one of the first science fiction authors I read as a child - along with Robert Sheckley, Clifford D. Simak, Henry Kuttner. He was translated and published and very beloved in USSR.

And when I think about him, I still feel the warmth, the magic, the wonder that I felt when I first read his stories.

Rest in peace, Ray Bradbury.

Thank you for your books.