Ray Bradbury Looks Back on the Future

“I’m surrounded by my metaphors.”–Ray Bradbury, talking with the New York Times about the objects in his study–and several “long-forgotten” works that are being published by Morrow and Gauntlet Press. Mr. Bradbury, who acknowledges that the science in his books is often faulty and serves only as a vehicle for his fiction. He’ll provide the inspiration, he says, and let the scientists worry about the particulars.

“The arts and sciences are connected. Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination”.