The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

short story, Hollerbochen’s Dilemma, in Imagination!, a magazine for amateur writer. In 1939, he published four issues of Futuria Fantasia which is his own fan magazine. In 1940, he made his first professional sale - with the help of Robert Heinlein - to Script, a West Coast literary magazine (Weller). In November 1941, the pulp magazine Science Stories published his story, Pendulum, his first professional piece, and it appeared in Super Science Stories. During World War II, his local draft…

The short story Harrison Bergeron, written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is a fictional story. The fantasy story was published in 1961 in the Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. In the story it was the year of 2081 and the government was starting to make everybody equal. The government was enforcing handicaps. The thing that helped them enforce the law was the 213 amendments. The handicaps included weights to slow the people down, masks to make the citizens not beautiful, and transmitters in the…

Ray Bradbury, one of the most acclaimed science fiction writers of all time, was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. From a young age Bradbury knew that he wanted to be a writer, he even started writing his own stories at the age of 11. Bradbury’s life was not easy though, for he lived through the Great Depression, one of the most trying times in United States history. Living during this depressing time did not stop Bradbury from doing what he loved. He continued to write all…

The persistence of the Mammy Despite Oprah’s massive capital accumulation and cultural influence, Oprah, representing a contemporary exposition of “the mammy”; a cultural archetype constructed in order to rationalize the morality of slavery, in other words, the servant or caterer to a white family in the slave times. In correspondence to the role of the mammy which is to serve their plantation Master’s psychological needs or make them feel comfortable in their children’s’ minds. While Oprah’s…

Game of Thrones is an ideal example of why the mass media is drawn to the apocalyptic-fiction genre and can be attributed to the connection between fiction and reality. Internally, within the mind, there is a psychological interest in endings and the end of the world. Externally, there is interest regarding historical events and personal religious beliefs. The apocalypse-fiction genre in modern media continues to become increasingly popular because many books and shows, such as George R.R.…

“Live Forever!” just as he will through his work. On the 22nd of August 1920, Esther Moberg Bradbury and her husband Leonard Spaulding Bradbury brought to the world the famous author Ray Bradbury. As Bradbury grew up he absolutely adored magicians, fantasy, and adventure. (“Ray Bradbury Biography.") Eventually, at age 12, Bradbury had visited a carnival and discovered a magician, Mr. Electro. As Bradbury watched from the audience Mr. Electro looked upon him and commanded, “Live forever!” This is…

stylized works of literature, Ray Bradbury emerged in the middle of the 20th century as a skilled writer whose stories and themes have influenced American culture and the literary community. Although many critics have described Bradbury as a science fiction writer, he is better labeled as author of fantastic tales that display profound observations about human nature (2). In his most famous novel, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury weaves together a fascinating and unnerving tale of the future of society.…

Illustrated Man) as part of the required curriculum. Ray Bradbury shows the reader several 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…

an interest in magic and fantasy, which play a heavy role in his work. He is a classic American author, who has had many of his stories included in editions of Best of American Short Stories, and was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 2004 for his work in newspaper articles. Bradbury died at 91 years old on June 5, 2012 with over 30 published books and over 600 short stories. Bradbury grew up in Waukegan Illinois with a supportive family and a keen interest in magic and fantasy. Some of his works…

This fact, and having read The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy - A Trilogy in Four Parts before starting with this novel, equipped me with a preconception of Douglas Adams's work. I knew roughly what to expect from an Adams work of fiction. The title of the novel, too, causes more connections to be made, obviously to the genre of the murder mystery, but also to a specific post-modernist theory concerning the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. On the back there is a "blurb" by the…