In the US, the NEA's "Big Read" programme continues, and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is again a popular book for communiti...

From the 1960s onwards, one of the most influential British literary commentators on science fiction was the novelist and critic Kingsley ...

Ray Bradbury has on more than occasion written about old ladies and their encounters with death. Sometimes he does it with humour, and som...

I confess that I haven't read any of the fiction by Jerry Oltion, but I am aware of his name. He is a Nebula Award-winning short story...

"The World the Children Made" was the title given to Bradbury's story "The Veldt" when it made its first appearanc...

The summer of 1952 saw the first issue of a fiction magazine called Fantastic , which boasted a star-studded line-up: not only Ray Bradbur...

In the June-July 1953 issue, Fantastic Universe carried a brand new Bradbury short story called "Time In Thy Flight", which rec...

Eric Rabkin once wrote an essay on Bradbury called "To Fairyland By Rocket". In that title alone, Rabkin encapsulates something ...

In these days of globalisation, it is easy to assume that British and American culture are in sync, and that they always have been. A book...

Alongside my interest in Ray Bradbury's screen career, I have been a longtime follower of other fantasists who practice(d) the art of ...