6 reviewed books
ReviewDandelion WineAt first glance, Ray Bradbury seems to have forgotten his sci-fi and fantasy roots while writing Dandelion Wine. But they are still present, only in parodied form.→ReviewFahrenheit 451No book did more to carry Ray Bradbury out of the science fiction ghetto. Ted Gioia on Fahrenheit 451 and its long passage into the literary mainstream.→ReviewRay Bradbury at Ninety: An AppreciationAt ninety Ray Bradbury had never learned to drive and told the internet to go to hell. Ted Gioia's appreciation of a writer wholly at odds with the future.→ReviewSomething Wicked This Way ComesFew horror stories are written with more sheer poetry than this Ray Bradbury classic. But does the stateliness of the prose undermine the terror of the tale?→ReviewThe Illustrated ManVacuum elevators and chromium cars are only ever stage props. Ted Gioia on why Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man works on emotion rather than technology.→ReviewThe Martian ChroniclesMars is almost incidental to these stories. Ted Gioia on how Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles owes far more to Winesburg, Ohio than to space opera.→