'It's the art of the possible'

“Sciencefiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soonwill, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be thesame again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of theworld, you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible,never the impossible.” – Ray Bradbury
One of the most celebrated 20th- and21st-Century Science Fiction writers, Bradbury was born in Illinois in the summer of 1920.  Self-taught as a writer, he won dozens of awards, including the National Medal of Arts, half-a-dozen honorary degrees, induction into at least 4 writing Halls of Fame for lifetime achievement, and a Pulitzer Prize Citation as "an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasty."    Bradbury authored 51 books, led by the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine.  He wrote the series The Martian Chronicles, consulted on dozens of screenplaysand television scripts, and authored numerous short stories, comic books and poems.  [image error] Upon his death in the summer of 2012 The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer mostresponsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream."

One of our country’s strongestadvocates for public libraries, Bradbury said he spent 3 days a week for 10 yearseducating himself in the public library, “And it's better than college. Peopleshould educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. Atthe end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written athousand stories.”