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Originally Posted by HoopyFrood
I dunno about Ray Bradbury, he always seemed much more fantasy than hardcore sci-fi. He was definitely on the cusp of the two, but I read him when he was one of the "Big Three" and I was a kid, and even then considered him not really sci-fi.
Maybe he should have a category of his very own, he certainly deserves it IMO.
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As a kid/teen, I wasn't into Bradbury at all. But as I got older, I really developed a love for his poetry-prose style.
That's always been the discussion about Ray, "is he or isn't he" a sci-fi writer? But he clearly IS a sci-fi writer judged by Farenheit 451, Martian Chronicles and countless short stories.
Hard sci-fi? No, clearly not.
But definitely sci-fi (although not limited to that realm).
Honorable mention for Joe Straczynski for Babylon 5 while I'm at (even though they were scripts and not prose in the traditional sense). He wrote the entire Season Four, numerous episodes of all other seasons, most issues of the short-lived DC comic...and gave us such immortal quotes as "Once the avalanche has started it is too late for the pebbles to vote." (Boy, a line of Babylon 5 ebooks would be a very profitable product line...they'd never hit the best-seller lists but boy could they be cool.)