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To: briskit who wrote (98244)	5/14/2003 12:06:15 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

"The Martian Chronicles." The first magazine I ever subscribed to was "Astounding Science Fiction." I got John Campbells mag when I was 13 and read every issue until I was 40. Bradbury, Asimov, and Heinlein were my Gods. I am so glad that Ray is still pumping away at age 82.

To: briskit who wrote (98244)	5/15/2003 12:32:05 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Today, Mr. Bradbury is more concerned with another problem that he thinks he didn't prevent. "There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them," he says. "The education system in this country is just terrible, and we're not doing anything about it." One of the often-overlooked details of "Fahrenheit 451" is that the censorship Mr. Bradbury describes was not imposed from the top by a ruthless government. Rather, it seeped up from the indifferent masses. As a villain explains: "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. . . . No wonder books stopped selling." Mr Bradbury seems to have retained his arrow and direct bullseye relationship....