Word: fahrenheit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temperature of approximately 100,000 degrees Fahrenheit makes its surface ten times as hot as the sun, Cassinelli said...
...temperature, however, in the clouds closest to Titan's surface is almost -333 degrees fahrenheit; it is possible that the moon's development may have stagnated in this "deep freeze," Eshleman added...
Only one mind could have produced these plots: that of Ray Bradbury, author of the classic Martian Chronicles and the gloomily prophetic Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury has long been considered one of the great long-distance runners of fantasy and science fiction. But he is also a sprinter; his poignant and ironic short stories have been anthologized for more than 30 years. Bradbury's latest book is a highly personal selection of those works: Martian adventures, nostalgic reminiscences about small-town Midwestern life in the '20s and '30s, and several evocative anecdotes about Ireland. But its best pieces...
Bradbury began writing science fiction as a teen-ager in Waukegan, Ill. But it was not until François Truffaut filmed Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 that he was widely saluted as one of the masters of the genre. "My life has been full of myths," says Bradbury, whose fiction often suggests an amalgam of the classic fables, Frank Baum's Oz books and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio...
Firestarter, thematically at least, is his highest Fahrenheit reading to date. King, who wrote Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot and The Dead Zone among other bestsellers, centers his plot this time on a little girl with the psychic power to set objects, people, even buildings and landscapes afire...