Ray Bradbury, innovator of the sci-fi genre

Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, a hundred years ago, and has been a point of reference for science fiction genre fiction, despite his concept of science fiction being slightly different from how we are used to thinking. Sometimes, he did not even consider himself a science fiction author, as he did not believe much in science, but he considered it a pretext to tell stories and to exalt the humanities such as literature and philosophy, which he himself considered immortal and lasting over time.





“First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and this is Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a representation of the real. Fantasy is a representation of the unreal. So Martian Chronicles is not science fiction, it is fantasy. This is why it will last a long time, because it is a Greek myth and myths have the power to resist. "

Precisely this different conception, however, allowed him to write novels and short stories not necessarily relegated to the science fiction genre, but able to get out of that ecosystem, to become real fixed points in modern literature . These, disconnecting from the purely commercial nature that science fiction novels often have, will be considered real fiction, worthy of even being included in school anthologies.