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Celebrating Ray Bradbury's 90th Birthday

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's 90th Birthday
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Celebrating Ray Bradbury's 90th Birthday
The Planetary Society presented a giant birthday card reflecting some of the 1600 birthday wishes collected from members and fans. Pictured here with the card (left to right): Ray Bradbury Week organizer Steven Leiva, Louis Friedman, Ray Bradbury, and Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti. Credit: The Planetary Society
On August 20, two days before Ray Bradbury turned 90, the Planetary Society presented the acclaimed author with a giant birthday card at a city council meeting at Los Angeles' City Hall, during which the council approved a resolution proclaiming August 22-28, 2010 "Ray Bradbury Week." Louis Friedman testified behalf of the resolution and personally gave Ray the card, filled with heartfelt wishes from our Members and other fans.

More than 1600 people shared how much Bradbury's stories, novels, and plays have meant to them through the years. Fans spanned the generations from children to octogenarians, with sometimes all three generations of fans in a single family.

Bradbury's extraordinary body of work includes The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and a vast collection of stories, poems and plays. His famous collection of stories, The Martian Chronicles, traveled to the planet Mars aboard the Phoenix lander as part of a mini-DVD created by the Planetary Society, entitled Visions of Mars. Ray Bradbury is also a longtime Planetary Society Advisory Council Member.

Thank you to all of you who sent messages.

Read some of the messages sent to Bradbury for his card.