AZARBAIJAN SHAHID MADANI UNIVERSITY

Supervised by_
Dr. Mehrvand
Presented by_ Mustafa Khalid Khalif
interview by Sam Weller with Ray Bradbury on
science fiction
 BIOGRAPHY RAY BRADBURY

Ray Douglas Bradbury

August 22, 1920- died June 5, 2012 (aged 91)
Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, the
son of a lineman for the local power company. As a
child, he developed a passion for the books of L.
Frank Baum and Edgar Allan Poe and immersed
himself in popular culture, from cinema to comic
strips to traveling circuses. Because Bradbury’s father
was often out of work during the twenties and thirties
 SCIENCE FICTION

Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas

excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the
adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know
I’m borrowing energy from the ideas
themselves. Science fiction is any idea that
occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet
 SCIENCE FICTION BECOME
RESPECTABLE

To some extent. It took a long time for people

simply to allow us out in the open and stop
making fun of us. When I was a young writer if
you went to a party and told somebody you
were a science-fiction writer you would be
insulted
 HIS OPINION ABOUT YOUNGER
WRITERS

I prefer not to read the younger writers in the

field. Quite often you can be depressed by
discovering they’ve happened onto an idea you
yourself are working on. What you want is
simply to get on with your own work.
 SELF-EDUCATED

I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to

college. I went down to the library when I was in
grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los
Angeles, and spent long days every summer in the
library.
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad
place for writers because the teachers always think
they know more than you do and they don’t.
 HOW BRADBURY WRITE

My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of

my life, and they have driven me there since I was
twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules.
Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it
schedules me, I don’t schedule it.
 HOW BRADBURY EDIT

I type my first draft quickly, impulsively even. A few

days later I retype the whole thing and my
subconscious, as I retype, gives me new words. Maybe
it’ll take retyping it many times until it is done.
 BEST WORKS OF RAY BRADBURY

• Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

• The October Country (1955)
• The Martian Chronicles (1950)
• The Illustrated Man (1951)
• The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
• Dandelion Wine (1957)
Thank you for listening