[This entry was updated by Gary K. Wolfe (Roosevelt University) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, pp. 16-33.] Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and althou...

Although Ray Bradbury remains perhaps the best known of all science-fiction writers, and although his stories and themes have permeated all areas of American culture as have those of no other science-fiction writer—through more than five hundred st...

Ray Bradbury is an interesting writer who has unjustly suffered from critical neglect. In a sense he has been the victim of a genre. To consider his work as "science fiction" or "fantasy"--no matter how good--is to damn it, for invariably these modes are...

The soft drinks industry on the whole must be doing something right. It's a category that relies on good weather to give it a boost, with 40% of total sales in the summer months and 2002 didn't do it any favours. Temperatures were...

About this time last year people across New Mexico were hoping for spring. This year most of us are looking ahead to it with a mixture of dread and resignation. Early next week will mark the one-year anniversary of an epic snowstorm...