“I’m a magician who writes about ideas. I’m not a science-fiction writer. People who call me that are wrong. Most of what I write is fantasy or magic realism or plays about my Mexican-American background.”

— Ray Bradbury

Bradbury Talk Likely to Feature the Unexpected (1994)

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“I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451.”

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It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
A Conversation with Ray Bradbury - Point Loma Nazarene University, Writer's Symposium By The Sea; April, 2001 http://www.cosmolearning.com/videos/a-conversation-with-ray-bradbury-2001-1131/

“I’m a magician who writes about ideas. I’m not a science-fiction writer. People who call me that are wrong. Most of what I write is fantasy or magic realism or plays about my Mexican-American background.”

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