Science Fiction with a Soul December 30, 2024
“Rooted as they are in facts of contemporary life, the phantasies of even a second-rate writer of modern Science Fiction are incomparably richer, bolder, and stranger than the Utopian or Millennial imaginings of the past,” Aldous Huxley proclaimed....
The Literary Progress of Ray Bradbury April 01, 2024
The joke was not lost on him: Ray Bradbury, whose imagination was always winging away to Mars or the fantastical future, suffered for much of his life from a fear of flying. Flying by aeroplane, at least. “Balloons are more my speed”, he confessed in...
Ray Bradbury, Sci-Fi Traditionalist March 22, 2024
The science fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury holds an unusual place in American letters. Ignored or undervalued by a sizable portion of the critical elite during his lifetime, he nevertheless became one of the most popular and anthologized aut...