By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Zero Hour’ is a 1949 short story by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), included in his 1953 collection The Illustrated Man. In the story, which is set in a future America, a young girl is befriended by an alien who needs her help to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2024-10-23 14:00:07 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Kaleidoscope’ is a short story by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), included in his 1952 collection of interlinked tales, The Illustrated Man. ‘Kaleidoscope’ deals with the theme of death, and how human beings respond to their imminent... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-12-29 15:00:31 UTC ]
Not many, according to a new collection of correspondence from a science fiction master. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-18 10:00:54 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The City’ is a short story about revenge best served cold. Written by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), the story was included in his 1952 collection The Illustrated Man. The story is about a city which has waited twenty thousand years... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-09-17 14:00:52 UTC ]
American editor who worked with many celebrated authors including Anthony Burgess, Doris Lessing and Joseph HellerRobert Gottlieb, who has died age 92, was the outstanding literary editor of the second half of the 20th century. Among the renowned novelists he worked with were Doris Lessing, Toni... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-06-26 16:14:17 UTC ]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The Long Rain’ is one of the best-known and most widely studied short stories by the American writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). Although Bradbury preferred to describe himself as a ‘fantasy’ writer, this story is most accurately categorised as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-04-28 14:00:00 UTC ]
‘The Locusts’ is a short chapter or tale within The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury’s 1950 science fiction novel which describes human exploration of, and settlement on, the planet Mars at the turn of the century after Earth becomes uninhabitable in the wake of nuclear war. In ‘The Locusts’,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-11-14 15:00:51 UTC ]
‘The Veldt’ is a short story by the American author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), included in his 1952 collection of linked tales, The Illustrated Man. The story concerns a nursery in an automated home in which a simulation of the African veldt is conjured by some children, but the lions which […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-06-06 14:00:03 UTC ]
‘A Sound of Thunder’ is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). A time-travel story about how changing the past could bring about momentous and catastrophic changes to the future, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ is often taught and studied in schools and remains... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-09-11 14:00:31 UTC ]
THE SKELETONS IN Ray Bradbury’s closet are out in Killer, Come Back to Me, a career-spanning collection of the science fictioneer’s crime stories. These 300 pages present a new side to readers who only know Bradbury from such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953).... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
Escape again into the worlds created by George R.R. Martin, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-10-06 10:57:16 UTC ]
When I was a child, I thought Ray Bradbury lived in my grandmother’s basement. The misunderstanding was born over the opening credits of Ray Bradbury Theater, a half-hour horror anthology heavily indebted to the Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents (both of which based episodes on stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-21 08:48:22 UTC ]
Past winners include Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ray Bradbury. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperVoyager is marking this year's 50th anniversary of Ray Bradbury's classic sci fi... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science-fiction great Ray Bradbury died Tuesday night in California at the age of 91. He was renowned for his short stories as well as for the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, which cast readers into a Cold War-inspired future of paranoid book burning. Back in 2005, Bryan Curtis argued that,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]