Ray Bradbury is more than just a legendary American novelist. He is also a short story writer, essayist, playwright screenwriter, poet, an owner of four cats, a father to four daughters, a grandfather to eight grandchildren, and he was a husband to Maggie until her death in November of 2003. They we...

To the Stars Ray Bradbury was a great writer on many levels. He could write novels, short stories, essays, plays, screenplays, and poetry. An active imagination and a fascination with outer space combine in many of Ray Bradbury's stories. Ray Bradbury surpassed an unstable childhoo...

In the genre of science fiction, many writers have changed the way people think about the future and the thoughts of society, but none have created the same amount of change as Ray Bradbury. Through his unique writing style of combining science fiction and sophisticated writing, (Discovering Author...

Technology is on of the most reliable resources available to man kind. Technological activities create a faster means of getting a job done with ease. As the future approaches the technology is rapidly increasing allowing people to achieve more activities in short amount of time. The short story &a...

There Will Come Soft Rains is about a house. The house is fully automated. Everything from the garage door to cleaning mice is automated. As the day goes on, the house recognizes to time and starts tasks at certain times. The house can recognize the dog's bark and let it come inside. It also has a...

Edgar Allen Poe developed ten principles that apply to short stories. In the story All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, these principles are shown throughout the story. The story is about a young girl who is living in a society from Earth on Venus. Venus has one hour of summer every 7 years and t...

A Hated and Loved hero Have you ever met a smart mouthed, bewildered teen with uncanny wisdom that grabbed people in a way that didn't seem right? Here is an introduction to that distressed teen, Holden Caulfied. Being the protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden has intr...