My introduction to Ray Bradbury was the Martian Chronicles TV series in 1980 starting Rock Hudson, Nicholas (Spude-Man) Hammond and Roddy McDowall. From that introduction, I had to read the book and then Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Ray Bradbury was a poet who wrote science fiction. He never went for the science side of things, but delved underneath for the soul of the people inhabiting his stories. In this way, he touched several generations of readers and writers.
Goodbye Mr. Bradbury. The world has lost a master storyteller.
by Ray Bradbury is a classic science fiction novel, but it’s really more like a set of vignettes covering almost 30 years of Earth astronauts going to and living on Mars. The book was written in the late 1940s before being collected as a novel in the early 1950s. My first introduction to The Martian Chronicles was the 
in 1980 (starring Rock Hudson) and from there I went to the find the books. It was my first introduction to Ray Bradbury and what an introduction it was.
by Ray Bradbury is a classic science fiction novel from the early 1950s. I get the feeling nowadays that Bradbury is almost a forgotten legend. Twenty or thirty years ago, his name was always up with Asimov and Clarke, but you rarely hear about him anymore. And it’s a shame, since his novels are completely different than anything else written at the time (or even written now). And Fahrenheit 451 is probably his best known work.