“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

Bornin Waukegan, IL in 1920, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th- and21st-century Science Fiction writers, winning numerous awards, including a 2007Pulitizer Prize.  He also wrote and consulted on screenplays andtelevision scripts, including Moby Dick and It Camefrom Outer Space.  Many of his works were adapted to comic book,television and film formats.

And,of course, he wrote the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and theseries The Martian Chronicles. At the time of his death in2012, The New York Times called Bradbury "the writer mostresponsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literarymainstream."

 One of our country’s strongest advocates forthe public library system, Bradbury said he spent three days a week for 10years educating himself in the public library, “And it's better than college.People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for nomoney. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'dwritten a thousand stories.”