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The works of Ray Bradbury Trey Thomas Ray Bradbury was a very influential writer who wrote twenty-two novels and allowed people two think in many different ways. He is best known for the books //The Martian Chronicles//, which was considered both a collection of short stories and a novel. He was also known for his book //Fahrenheit 451//, which was based in a dystopian time, a dystopia is where there is a government that has a very oppressive social control, and is very authoritarian in command. He also wrote a book called //Something Wicked This Way Comes// which was about a carnival that comes and tries to kill every body in Green Town, Illinois. Finally he also wrote a book that he is well known for, that is the //illustrated man// which is a collection of short stories told in great detail, like the laborite tattoos that some people get. Some of Ray Bradbury’s books are based in space. Out of 79 total publishings (not including the anthology or short stories) 5 were about space the rest were about robots or machines, the stories that were not Sci-Fi related were horror stories. He had 13 total novels, which were his most popular. He also had 10 non-fiction books. Ray Bradbury wrote some stories that were in 140 different books. Finally He wrote at least 200 short stories, which most are Sci-Fi or space related. Ray liked to write stories that had both Sci-Fi, and Horror in them. For example one of his novels, A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities was both a Sci-Fi and horror plot book. Also many of his storys were about robots, machines, or horror stories. Finally Ray Bradbury is one of the most, if not the most influential Sci-Fi writers in the history of Sci-Fi
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