who in the civilized, book-reading world doesn't know the name Ray Bradbury?Ray Bradbury is very probably better than we ever imagined him to be in our wildest promotion of himEvery time we try to hype some non-believer into accepting sf and fantasy as legitimate literature, we refer him or her to the works of Ray Bradbury.When we do the conversion bit with scoffers, we whirl them over to the meager sf racks in most bookstores and we may find no Delany, no Lafferty, no Knight or Disch or Dickson, but by God we always find The Martian Chronicles.
And we say, "Here try this. You'll love it."And he's the only man whose poetry I would have included in this, a book of stories.
Ray Bradbury