Recently-Passed Ray Bradbury: "Reagan Was Our Greatest President"

Recently-Passed Ray Bradbury: "Reagan Was Our Greatest President"

Ray Bradbury passed away today. He was an American icon and one of the most important authors of the 20th century. The number of people that he turned on to science fiction is inestimable; his most famous work, Fahrenheit 451, was and is still widely-read by teenagers and often serves as an introduction to the genre. That novel is a classic in dystopian literature and a stunning portrait of a totalitarian government with little respect for freedom of speech and thought.

Science fiction has long been a domain in which authors could sketch out-of-control governments that...