Ray Bradbury

""Makes a significant contribution to the study of Bradbury's science fiction by carrying his survey and analysis on through the entire arc of Bradbury's creative life, further than any earlier studies were able to take it. Seed also demonstrates full command of the critical legacy, which is now incredibly broad in terms of academic, journalistic, and popular media responses to Bradbury's very special brand of science fiction.""--Jonathan R. Eller, author of Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound ""David Seed has not simply read and cited existing scholarship on Bradbury, including Bradbury's own large body of essays and interviews, but he has thoroughly assimilated and synthesized it. This fine, readable study of Bradbury's science fiction stands securely on the shoulders of the best and most perceptive writing about an author whom Seed convincingly assesses as a game-changing figure in twentieth-century American literature and culture.""--Robert Crossley, author of Imagining Mars: A Literary History ""With a keen grasp of the American pulp cauldron that emerged after World War II, Seed recounts how Bradbury emerged from the SF ""ghetto,"" only to affirm his masterful grasp of the major themes of SF--Mars, dystopia, space--in works like Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, and his many stories of space travel. Seed's study is also remarkable in emphasizing Bradbury's many attempts to stage or film his work, noting the supremely visual aspect of his writing. This study was long in coming, and is absolutely essential for the understanding of Bradbury's work.""--George Slusser, author of Gregory Benford