Ray Bradbury was a great admirer of the artist Sidney H. Sime, and wrote an introduction for the 1978 book, SIDNEY H. SIME: MASTER OF FANTASY. The link below will take you to a portion of that introduction, in which Ray briefly discusses Sime, as well as writers Lord Dunsany and Rudyard Kipling, and which is drawn from a lecture by Lord Dunsany at UCLA which Ray attended in the mid-1950's:

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