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prick Bradbury     Ray Bradbury was a dreamer. Bradbury had a skill at putting his dreamsonto paper, and into books. He dreams dreams of magic and transformation, goodand evil, sm wholly-t deliver the States and the canals of Mars. His dreams ar not onlypopular, but durable. His work consists of short stories, which are not hard topublish, and keep in the public eye. His stories have stayed in print for nearlythree decades.     Ray Bradbury was born on noble 22, 1920, in a small town of Waukegan,Illinois. His parents were Leonard Spaulding and Esther Moberg Bradbury. Hismother, Esther Moberg loved films, she gave her son the position name Douglasbecause of Douglas Fairbanks, and she passed her love of films to her son. "Mymother took me to see everything....." Bradbury explains, "Im a child of bowel movementpictures." Prophetically, the outset film he saw, at the age of three, was thehorror undefiled "The Hunchback o f Notre Dame", staring Lon Chanley. His teenageAunt Neva gave the boy his judgement of fantasy, by reading him the Oz books,when he was six. When Bradbury was a child he was boost to read the classic,Norse, Roman, and Greek Myths. When he was old enough to choose his own readingmaterials, he chose books by Edger Rice Burroughs and the comic book heroes fleet Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Prince Valiant. When Bradbury was in Waukegan hedeveloped his interest in playacting and Drama. After seeing a magician, known asBlackstone, he became mesmerized with magic also.     In 1932, his family moved to Tucson Arizona. With his talents he learnedin Waukegan (amateur magician) he got a job at the local radio station. "I wason the radio every Saturday night reading comic strips to the kiddies and being stipendiary in free tickets, to the local cinema, where I saw The Mummy, The Murdersin the get up Museum, Dracula, .....and King Kong." His family only stayed in Tuscan for a year, but Bradbury feels "It was one of the sterling(prenominal) years of mylife because I was acting and singing in operettas and writing, my first shortstories."     In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, where Bradbury has remained. Heattended Los Angeles High School, where he wrote and took part in many dramaticproductions. His literary ... ...feild is. The demands of the commercialmart and the need to confine a popular writer and his within an uncomplicatedrecognizable image have resulted in Bradburys being jammed uncomfortably into abox labeled "Science Fiction". No interpretation of science fiction exists thatpleases everybody, and even if it did, to apply it casually to the work of RayBrabdbury would be inaccurate and unfair. H.G. rise, whom many regard as a immaculate science fiction writer, had this to say about his own novels "They areall fantasies they do not aim to project a serious misfortune they aim indeedo nly at the amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream. They haveto observe the reader to the end by art and illusion and not by proof and argument,and the moment he closes the cover the reflects he wakes up to theirimpossibility." Wells here is contrasting his stories with those of Jules Verne,wich he calls, anticipatory inventions." Viewed this way, virtually all ofBradburys stories are fantasies, with Wellss theory of the "good grippingdream" coming closest to describing their effect. Even like a shot Ray Bradburysplace in literature is not clear.