Photos: Happy birthday Ray Bradbury
Today, Aug. 22, is the 93rd anniversary of author Ray Bradbury's birth. He died in 2012, but his stories live on.
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Science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury in Tucson. Arizona Daily Star file photo taken 9/27/74 by Art Grasberger.
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Ray Bradbury of Los Angeles, science fiction novelist. (AP Photo)
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NASA scientists named the Curiosity touch-down area Bradbury Landing after writer Ray Bradbury, seen on screen, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. The six-wheel rover made its first test drive on Wednesday as a warm-up for the long trek to the mountain expected later this year. Shown from left: Dr. Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration program at NASA Headquarters, Peter Theisinger, MSL project manger, NASA JPL, Pasadena; Matt Heverly, Lead Curiosity Driver; Roger Wiens, principal investigator of ChemCam, and Joy Crisp, MSL deputy project scientist. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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This image provided by NASA shows a 2008 photo of a mini-DVD on the deck of the Phoenix lander on the Mars surface containing author Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" and other science fiction work. Bradbury died on June 6, 2012 at age 91. The mini-DVD from the Planetary Society contains a message to future Martian explorers, science fiction stories and art inspired by the Red Planet, and the names of more than a quarter million earthlings. (AP Photo/NASA)
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Ray Bradbury, although one of America's most popular and prolific storytellers, has never had his own television series. He has now reached the home screen in his own series, "The Ray Bradbury Theater," on Home Box Office. He's shown in his Beverly Hills office in February 1986, surrounded by an unlimited supply of toys and treasures. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac)
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Dr. Louis Friedman, left, executive director of The Planetary Society, presents author Ray Bradbury, with a Mars-shaped cake at Bradbury's 83rd birthday party held Saturday, Aug. 23, 2003, at the Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif. Bradbury celebrated his 83rd birthday with this wish: One night, 100 years from now, a youngster will stay up late reading his 1950 classic "The Martian Chronicles" with a flashlight under his blanket _ on the Red Planet. (AP Photo/Stefano Paltera)
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Science fiction author Ray Bradbury sits in front of a photo of Mars, presented to him during an 83rd birthday party in his honor Saturday, Aug. 23, 2003, at The Planetary Society in Pasadena, Calif. Bradbury celebrated his 83rd birthday with this wish: One night, 100 years from now, a youngster will stay up late reading his 1950 classic "The Martian Chronicles" with a flashlight under his blanket _ on the Red Planet. (AP Photo/Stefano Paltera)
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury smiles in his Beverly Hills, Ca., office in Feb. 1982. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury looks at a picture that was part of a school project to illustrate characters in one of his dramas in Hollywood, Ca., Dec. 8, 1966. (AP Photo)
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In this 1990 file photo, Author Ray Bradbury poses for a photo at a Waukegan, Ill. park named in his honor. He wrote about playing in the park as a child in "Dandelion Wine." Bradbury, who wrote everything from science-fiction and mystery to humor, died Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in Southern California. He was 91. (AP File Photo)
When he was growing up, the famous science fiction author Ray Bradbury spent time in Tucson. He later told a reporter that it was here that hi…