American author who wrote Fahrenheit 451 (the dystopia of book burning and television), The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes — known for poetic, lyrical science fiction that prioritized human emotion over technical detail.
Created humanistic science fiction — Bradbury's science fiction is not primarily about science but about what technology does to human longing, memory, and wonder; Fahrenheit 451's warning that pleasure and distraction are more effective tools of censorship than force anticipated the attention economy.
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