for Rocket, The Small Assassin, The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics, The Machineries of Joy, The Autumn People, S Is for Space, Tomorrow Midnight, Twice 22, The Vintage Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays, When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, Pillar of Fire and Other Plays, Long After Midnight, Beyond 1984: A Remembrance of Things Future, The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope, The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 and The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Locus Award, 1981). [Internet]Bradbury is a winner of the Nebula, Prometheus, O. Henry Memorial, Balrog, Bram Stoker, Benjamin Franklin, Aviation-Space Writers and World Fantasy Awards. He is also SFWA Grand Master. Bradbury has won the Gandalf Award for Lifetime Contribution to Fantasy in 1980. A writer for TV, radio, theater and film, his credits include a script for the film Moby Dick. His show The Ray Bradbury Theatre is currently showing on the Sci-Fi Channel. Mel Gibson will star in and direct a new remake of Ray's classic Fahrenheit 451, slated for release in 1999 (Guest Biographies, 1998, Internet).Ray Bradbury was severely criticized in some cases for much of the literature that he wrote. Damon Knight explains how anyone that talks about Ray Bradbury does not completely understand his work. "His imagination is mediocre; he borrows nearly all his backgrounds and props, and distorts them badly" (Riley, 1975, p. 85). Damon Knight also states that little has been said about Bradbury’s technique of writing. Knight implies that Bradbury writes about stale and familiar topics with a new set of words describing them. "He never lets go of an idea until he has squeezed it dry, and never wastes one" (Riley, 1975, p. 85).In a lighter look at Bradbury literary styles, Steven Dimeo states that Bradbury asks the younger generation for a belief in "pseudo-sciences, political fa...
