Ray Bradbury Mini Bio

The Martian Chronicles (1950)

A science fiction short story collection about the colonization of Mars by humans feeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists.

A book of science fiction short stories that explores the nature of mankind. Its recurring theme is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people.

The Illustrated Man (1951)

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

A novel about a future American society where reading is outlawed and books are burnt. Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how television destroys interest in reading, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context.

A novel about two 13-year-old boys who have a frightening experience with a carnival that comes to their town. The novel combines elements of fantasy and horror, analyzing the conflicting natures of good and evil.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

They often have elaborate personalities and behaviors, and are made often in childhood, sometimes in adolescence, and rarely in adulthood. They reveal, according to several theories of psychology, a child's anxieties, fears, and perceptions of the world through that child's eyes. They are, according to some children, physically indistinguishable from real people, while others say they see their imaginary friends only in their heads. They may seem real to their creators, though they are ultimately unreal.

Imaginary friends

A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group such as a nation from within. Its been connected with Nazism and the Spanish Civil War. The term was used as the title of Ernest Hemingway's only play, which he wrote while Madrid was being bombarded. The Fifth Column is also a subgroup of alien Visitors in the 1980s science fiction V. They are depicted as Visitors who oppose the current leadership and plot to rebel against them.

Fifth Column