The joke was not lost on him: Ray Bradbury, whose imagination was always winging away to Mars or the fantastical future, suffered for much of his life from a fear of flying. Flying by aeroplane, at least. “Balloons are more my speed”, he confessed in 1966 to François Truffaut, who had urged him to come to the Venice Film Festival for a screening of Fahrenheit 451.
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