American science fiction writers

story writer, essayist, poet, playwright, lecturer, visionary, and screenwriter. In August 22, 1920, he was born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a lineman for telephone and power utilities as well as a technician; His mother, Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury (nee Moberg) was a swedish immigrant. Ray Bradbury was the third son of the family (Shelokhonov). His middle name, Douglas, was given to him by his parents after Douglas Fairbanks (an american…

contemptuous and optimistic effects technology has on mankind, he had also accomplished several phenomena about his life. Ray Bradbury is arguably the greatest science-fiction writer of all-time as proven by the prophetic nature of his work, an abundance of his writing, and influence on the genre. Ray Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and poet, was born August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He graduated from Los Angeles high school in 1938. During his High School…

and the science in his life. His use of symbols, foreshadowing and theme shows how he fits in the science fiction and thriller genres of American Literature. One of the major impacts on Crichton’s life was school. Michael attended Harvard Medical School. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1964 ("The Official Site of Michael Crichton."). Crichton received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1969 ("The Official Site…

flame. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) is closely associated with postmodernism, which began in the late 20th century and has lasted till present day. It is largely a reaction to assumed certainty of science, or object, effort to explain reality. Ray’s obsession over magic and other fantasies made him into the writer he is today. On May 10, 1993, there was a campine in Germany where they would gather large masses of book. Thirty-four universities, burned over twenty-five thousand books, The works…

Paranoid fiction shows the manipulative nature of reality and how it can be altered by powerful forces. These forces can be a governing body, such as a dictatorship or communist government, or they can be an internal situation, such as a character's mental instability or refusal to accept the harshness of the world he or she is in. Unlike speculative fiction, paranoid fiction is written in a way so as to imply that the story may only be a delusion of the characters, instead of treating it as an…

Probably the most popular and interesting style in science fiction novels is the one that deals with future events, where the writer tries to anticipate futuristic changes. The accuracy of an author is of course found out retroactively, when the reader realizes that the author, years before, was able to predict and depict the future. However, The Penultimate Truth (Philip K. Dick) and 1984 (George Orwell), even though classified as science fiction novels, should not be considered so because the…

2.1. Carrie : An Overview Carrie (1974) is the first full-length published and well-received novel written by King, a profound depiction of the story of outcast high-school girl, Carrie White. Despite the fact that it is his first published novel, he previously has sixth attempts at writing novels. King in his book On Writing , a memoir of his literary craft , records the story of how he wrote Carrie . He recalls ''I did three single-spaced pages of a first draft, then crumpled them up in…

Iraq + 100 asks you to step outside the comfort zone of science fiction, and the journey is a worthy one for Book-Thirsty Thursday. Book-Thirsty Thursday is a bit of a silly pun. I admit it. And this week, reviewing Iraq + 100 from Tor, it feels like a slightly too-silly pun, when the press materials all point out that this book is fairly important for reasons we'll get to in the very next paragraph. But let us add another layer to the concept of the weekly book review's title first. After all,…

only influential in the designing of Epcot at Disney World, but also influential in the designing of the 1964 New York World’s Fair American Pavilion. (www.bradburymedia.blogspot.com) Bradbury in his youth was a zealous reader; so much so, he would devote hours refining his works to be a near imitation of Edgar Allen Poe’s writing style. In terms of science fiction and make-believe, Ray Bradbury was the definitive author of the 20th century; Bradbury drew influence from his upbringing in the…

William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has had a very successful career. Gibson has built an impressive list of accolades including creating a science-fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, creating the term cyberspace, and being the first author to win the science fiction “triple crown”--the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. What’s even more impressive is the fact that Gibson was able to accomplish all of this with one novel, Neuromancer. Published in 1984,…