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3 Horror Classics Rise From The Grave For Halloween

October 31, 2015 • If you like ghosts, ghouls and witches, you won't find them in The Case Against Satan, Perchance to Dream, and Songs of a Dead Dreamer — their horrors are more familiar and far more frightening.

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For The New Year, Ray Bradbury's Buoyant Vision Of The Future

January 2, 2015 • We saw a lot of dystopias in both films and books this year. Author Jason Sheehan has had enough. He plans to celebrate the new year with some science fiction that's actually hopeful about the future.

For The New Year, Ray Bradbury's Buoyant Vision Of The Future

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10 Eye-Catching Reads For The Book Lover On Your List

December 11, 2012 • Gift books should be special: arrestingly visual, deeply felt, quirky, comprehensive, important. We've combed the shelves to bring you several such suggestions, guaranteed to put a sparkle in the eyes of any big reader.

Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels

August 7, 2012 • More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young-adult fiction. Now, after all the nominating, sorting and counting, the final results are in. Here are the 100 best teen novels, chosen by the NPR audience.

Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'

"I'd like to come back every 50 years and see how we can use certain technological advantages to our advantage," said science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. He died Tuesday at age 91. Steve Castillo/AP hide caption

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Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'

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June 8, 2012 • "I'm never going to go to Mars but I've helped inspire ... the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars," Bradbury told Terry Gross in 1988. The science-fiction writer died Tuesday at the age of 91.

Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'

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Bradbury's Tale: A 'Wicked' Read, A Haunted Book

April 26, 2012 • It wasn't just the creepy carnival that drew Seth Grahame-Smith to Something Wicked This Way Comes. It was also the book's frank portrayal of parents who don't behave like grown-ups. Do you remember when you realized your parents weren't perfect? Tell us about it in the comments.

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Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books

August 11, 2011 • More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles.

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Bradbury Classic In Vivid, 'Necessary' Graphic Form

July 30, 2009 • Ray Bradbury's novel about a futuristic America where books are not merely banned but burned remains one of science fiction's most popular works. And now it's one of the best graphic novels of 2009.

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Bradbury's Fiction Reignites An Author's Faith

July 30, 2009 • Author Alice Hoffman says the world rendered in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 "is a place of great heart and wisdom, a universe of huge imagination where nothing is off-limits."

Bradbury's Fiction Reignites An Author's Faith

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Reimagining 'Fahrenheit 451' As A Graphic Novel

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Reimagining 'Fahrenheit 451' As A Graphic Novel

July 30, 2009 • Ray Bradbury's 1953 classic has been adapted for a new medium. Graphic novelist Tim Hamilton reimagines the book in a classic comic book visual style.

Reimagining 'Fahrenheit 451' As A Graphic Novel

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Critics' Lists: Summer '07

Savor the Season with a Picnic of Good Books

June 4, 2007 • Summer is the season we can finally tackle the books that have been piling up on our desks and forming small mountains on the floor. Book critic Alan Cheuse offers a selection of some of the best books of late spring and early summer, and some classics that are always present in his literary landscape.

Savor the Season with a Picnic of Good Books

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Summer Books 2007: Excerpts

Excerpt: 'Farewell Summer: A Novel'

June 4, 2007 • Ray Bradbury writes of summertime: "There are those days which seem a taking in of breath, which, held, suspends the whole earth in its waiting. Some summers refuse to end." Recommended by Alan Cheuse, Farewell Summer is the sequel to Bradbury's much-beloved Dandelion Wine.

Ray Bradbury: The Fresh Air Interview

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November 17, 2000 • Ray Bradbury has been awarded the 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. He is the author of over 23 books, including I Sing the Body Electric, The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, all classics of science fiction. Bradbury created the scenario for the U.S. Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and the concept for Spaceship Earth at EPCOT at Disney World. In the early '60s, he wrote screenplays for the television programs The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He lives in Los Angeles, Calif.

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'Fahrenheit 451' Author Ray Bradbury Dies At 91

Ray Bradbury's career spanned more than 70 years — during which he transported readers to other dimensions with his futuristic and innovative stories. He died Tuesday at age 91. Lennox McLendon/AP hide caption

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'Fahrenheit 451' Author Ray Bradbury Dies At 91

June 6, 2012 • The science fiction icon, who also wrote such classics as The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes, died Tuesday. Bradbury was known for his futuristic tales — but he never used a computer, or even drove a car.

'Fahrenheit 451' Author Ray Bradbury Dies At 91

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For The New Year, Ray Bradbury's Buoyant Vision Of The Future

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Ray Bradbury: 'It's Lack That Gives Us Inspiration'

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Bradbury's Tale: A 'Wicked' Read, A Haunted Book

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Bradbury's Fiction Reignites An Author's Faith

Reimagining 'Fahrenheit 451' As A Graphic Novel

Savor the Season with a Picnic of Good Books

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'Fahrenheit 451' Author Ray Bradbury Dies At 91