The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Ackerman, a renown Science Fiction specialist, was born on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles. His grandpa and grandma, George and Bell Herbert, made a huge impact on Ackerman’s interests in monsters and aliens. As a child, his grandmother influenced him by reading ghost stories while his grandpa drew pictures of monsters and aliens and brought him to as many as seven movies a day. His eccentric imagination of extraterrestrials encouraged and sparked his career as a Science Fiction publisher.…

English IV 1st Block Mr. Arnett, M. Ed 10/9/2017 George R.R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin, born as George Raymond Marin (September 20, 1948) is an American novelist writer in the fantasy, horror and science fiction. He sold his first short story, "The Hero," to Galaxy, a science fiction magazine, which was published in 1971. He published nine novels, ten short story collections, and one children's book. From all of his good work one of his best known is the Song of Ice and Fire…

Ray Bradbury was a famous American author. His writings are mostly affiliated with the genres such as: fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery-fiction. Till this day, he is known for his amazing works of literature. Mr. Bradbury was one of those rare individuals whose public work greatly influenced people. He was known for his influences in the art world not only in the area of literature, but also theatre and music. Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in the small town of Waukegan,…

Author Kristine Kathryn Rusch has written many things, in many different pen names, some of which under her own; something that has led her to win quite a few awards for. She writes mainstream, romance (Kristine Grayson), science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction (one that includes a book about writing), and mystery (Kris Nelscott); which by the way, is just about every genre there is out there. Her husband, Dean Wesley Smith is also a writer, and together have written some things together that they…

Bradbury became one of the most honored American authors in the genres of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery. In the 1950’s many authors were writing motivational novels, but not Bradbury. His desire for fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery set him aside from other authors and he was widely noticed. “When people asked about the purpose of his novels, Bradbury responded, ‘I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it’” (“Ray Bradbury” Encyclopedia). Ray Bradbury was…

this country, I wanted to write something about them” (Fenton 19). In “By the Waters of Babylon”, Benet incorporates pieces from modern culture into the story to make it seem like a folk-myth or a legend. Benet used American past and fantasy to create a science fiction story that could be read like literature. In many points of Benet’s career, he had little to no money because he couldn’t write any short stories, but eventually wrote multiple books and collections of short stories and poems to…

To begin, Ray Bradbury was important to American literature for his fantasy short stories. From the book I read, Fahrenheit 451, I got the impression that Bradbury has a theme of writing stories that have non-fiction based events occurring. However, everything that happens is overall fictional or unrealistic. For example, in my book, a guy named Guy Montag was a fireman who burned books along with every other citizen who doesn’t necessarily live by the “rules.” Although, there are many parts of…

Throughout his film career, Hitchcock also showed his dislike and fear of authorities, namely that of policemen. He employed various camera techniques that “mimics a person 's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. In addition, he framed shots to maximize anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative forms of film editing“ (Wikipedia). Hitchcock skillfully uses all of this in Psycho, and it is “ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for…

King began sending short fiction to magazines when he was twelve. He had no success at that time selling his stories, but he did win first prize in an essay competition sponsored by a scholastic magazine. In high school King authored a small, satiric (poking fun at human weakness) newspaper entitled The Village Vomit. He published his first story at eighteen in a magazine called Comics Review. King graduated from high school in 1966. He received…

1. Campbellesque fiction, named after John Campbell the blending of a good story and correct scientific knowledge, in a way that neither overpowers the other. This type of fiction demonstrates a sort of realism that makes the entirety of the story seem plausible, achievable, and after a decade no longer fictional. According to Isaac Asimov, this was the death of this era of science fiction. Science fiction moved in this direction due to the premium on quality writing placed by John Campbell…