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Ray Bradbury
Like so many great horror writers, Ray Bradbury was utterly without fear. He wasn't scared of optimism or innocence or sentiment. He didn't give a damn if the...
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury: He Jumped Off Cliffs and Never Hit the Ground
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything.
Ray Bradbury on Film: The Best of the Sci Fi Master’s Movies and TV Shows
Ray Bradbury, the iconic science fiction writer, has died at the age of 91. The author penned some of the most memorable fantasy stories of the 40s and 50s and...
Ray Bradbury Didn’t Love All Tech, but He Loved What Mattered Most
Many scientists were inspired to explore Mars in the first place thanks to works like Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" and "The Illustrated Man."
Books: Sci-Fi Sprints
THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY by Ray Bradbury Knopf; 928 pages; $17.95 A father becomes his son, then takes the youngster's place in his playgrounda lower...
Books: Poet of the Pulps
THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (250 pp.)Ray BradburyDoubleday ($3). Ray Bradbury, 32, is a pulp writer whose work is admired by highbrows. Indeed, his writing...
Books: Djinn & Bitters
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY (306 pp.)Ray BradburyBallantine Books ($3.50; paperback, $.35). Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters,...
Using 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher...
Lord of the Ringworld: In Praise of Larry Niven
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) You know how it is with your literary heroes — you never want to stop crapping...
Morning Must Reads: La Jolla
Surrounded by gay couples and choom gangs, the Romneys settle into La Jolla. The Mitt Romney e-mail hacker is very, very sorry. Labor’s decline has been slow,...
Reading While Eating for June 6: D-Day
Lest We Forget: On the 68th anniversary of D-Day, check out these rare color photos from the preparation for and aftermath of the military operation that changed...
Q&A: Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury turned 90 years old on Aug. 22, and the science fiction pioneer has no intention of slowing down. The author of books including The Martian...
Forrest J Ackerman
Fanboy love is an industry now. Film studios and comix publishers court their young, mostly male base and count on it to help turn cult items into mass...
Sci-Fi's No. 1 Fanboy, Forrest J Ackerman, Dies at 92
Fan as in fanatic. Fan as in fancier. Fan as in fantasy lover. Forrest J Ackerman, who died Thursday at 92 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, was all these things...
Books: Figments
A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS by Ray Bradbury Knopf; 285 pages; $18.95 When the Soviet President and his wife visited the U.S. recently, the writer they most wanted...
Year Of Living Dangerously
TITLE: GREEN SHADOWS, WHITE WHALE AUTHOR: RAY BRADBURY PUBLISHER: KNOPF; 271 PAGES; $21 THE BOTTOM LINE: A sojourn in Ireland recalled, quarts and all. IN THE...
Books: Dwarfed By Ancient Archetypes Death Is a Lonely Business
The Los Angeles teenager always knew that he was different. Even his suit was not like any classmate's. There was a bullet hole in it. The boy had inherited the...
Books: Stargazer the Toynbee Convector
On an otherwise ordinary evening in May, a week before his 29th birthday, Jonathan Hughes met his fate, commuting from another time, another year, another life...
Computers: Stepping into the Story
In his 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Author Ray Bradbury foresaw the day when books would be replaced by various forms of high-tech entertainment, including soap...
