I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

When Bradbury returned to Los Angeles he connected all the short stories and that became The Martian Chronicles. He loved Burroughs' The Warlord of Mars so much that at the age of 12 he wrote his own sequel. Electrico.

Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into comic books television shows and films. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951) Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.