Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury         Ray Bradbury was a dreamer. Bradbury had a skill at putting his dreams onto paper, and into books. He dreams dreams of magic and transformation, good and evil, small-town America and the canals of Mars. His dreams are not only popular, but durable. His work consists of short stories, which are not hard to publish, and keep in the public eye. His stories have stayed in print for nearly three decades.         Ray Bradbury …

…and illusion and not by proof and argument, and the moment he closes the cover the reflects he wakes up to their impossibility.' Wells here is contrasting his stories with those of Jules Verne, wich he calls, 'anticipatory inventions.' Viewed this way, virtually all of Bradbury's stories are fantasies, with Wells's concept of the 'good gripping dream' coming closest to describing their effect. Even today Ray Bradbury's place in literature is not clear.