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September 7, 2020 (August 12, 2020)

Q&A with Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo

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Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo, the final book in his trilogy biography of Ray Bradbury, answers questions about his reasoning for writing a trilogy, academic and literary […]

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August 22, 2020 (August 20, 2020)

Ray Bradbury Birthday Bundle Sale

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Happy 100th birthday, Ray Bradbury! The Press is excited to announce that today, on the Bradbury Centennial, we are releasing the final addition to Jonathon Eller’s Ray Bradbury trilogy, Bradbury […]

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August 22, 2016 (August 22, 2016)

Bradbury Trivia: Ray and Rod

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Ray Bradbury, born on August 22, 1920, is known for his breakthrough novels such as Fahrenheit 451.  As Jonathan R. Eller writes in Ray Bradbury Unbound, the author also made an […]

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June 27, 2016

Modern Masters of Science Fiction series recognized by Locus

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The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners of the 2016 Locus Awards on Saturday, June 25, 2016 in Seattle WA. Some fantastic books were honored including Letters to Tiptree, edited […]

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October 2, 2015 (October 2, 2015)

Bradbury and “dangerous” books

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For Ray Bradbury, censorship was serious business. In Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451, book banning was not only a matter of the obliteration of the printed page, but a literal case of […]

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October 17, 2014 (October 16, 2014)

Ray Bradbury’s ‘Moby Dick’

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Many a high school English student has turned to a video of the 1950s film adaptation of Moby-Dick when faced with writing a report on lengthy sea tale. The plot […]

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August 22, 2014 (August 22, 2014)

Ray Bradbury and the Twilight Zone

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Ray Bradbury had made his name fusing science fiction with an abiding concern for humanity. What he had done in print, Rod Serling brought to early television. The anthology series The […]

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July 25, 2014 (July 25, 2014)

Sci Fi Friday: Ray Bradbury makes an impact on the Moon

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On July 26, 1971 the Apollo 15 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with a mission to explore Earth’s moon. Four days later, on July 30, 1971 Lunar Module […]

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August 22, 2013 (August 15, 2016)

Happy birthday Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920. The celebrated author famously claimed to remember his own birth. Jonathan R. Eller, director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at […]

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