![]() He said so in a 1999 interview with the Weekly Wire: “I don’t write science fiction. He wrote very little science fiction, even as he became a measure of how good the genre could be. Ironically, Bradbury, like Ballard, was primarily a fantast. Ray Bradbury, he said, had shown him that science fiction was worth writing. ![]() ![]() “Well, they’re wrong, too!” announced Ballard, who admired Bradbury and whose own early Vermilion Sands stories echo Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. “Fahrenheit 451 isn’t the temperature at which book paper burns!” But, I asked, hadn’t Bradbury phoned the Los Angeles Fire Department to get the temperature right? But they proved harder to burn than he thought, so he put one in the kitchen oven, which had a suitable thermometer, to test the igniting heat of book paper. ![]() Feeling weighed down by the bad prose cluttering his study, he had dug a pit in his back garden and thrown his review copies in, splashing them with a little petrol. ![]()
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