You know, I saw this posted about a week ago, but I still can’t help but hope it’s a hoax, or that somebody couldn’t tell that Ray Bradbury was kidding. It would be disappointing to think that one of my favorite authors is actually such a thin-skinned jerk. (I’ve already had enough trouble with the knowledge that Orson Scott Card is something of a conservative blowhard.)

Obviously, I can’t read Swedish and online translators are a little dodgy at best, but the original article seems to say what World Net Daily says it does. Which is disappointing. As Matthew Baldwin points out, it’s not as if Bradbury has been above the occasional literary allusion himself.