Rest in Peace Ray Bradbury
He gave us many iconic stories and novels over his life and I remember reading some of them as a kid as part of my “sci-fi education.”
Below is a great clip of him at Caltech on the eve of Mariner 9 going into orbit around Mars. I would have given anything to be in that audience (okay I was 3 at the time and wouldn’t have understood anything) given that along with Bradbury you had Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke.