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The Strange Encounter With a Carnival Magician That Inspired Ray Bradbury to Write

Some of Ray Bradbury's best-known works, including 'Something Wicked This Way Comes,' were inspired by a man named Mr. Electrico who said he recognized him from a past life, and to...

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

A lightning-rod salesman picks the house that needs protecting, and a carnival arrives at three in the morning with a carousel that sells years. Bradbury's 1962 classic is the grea...

Why Rod Serling Only Adapted One Ray Bradbury Story For The Twilight Zone

Ray Bradbury was supposed to be a big part of The Twilight Zone. So why did Rod Serling reject his first couple of scripts - and what did Bradbury think of it?

After the Fire, a New Anthology Inspired by Ray Bradbury, Opens Call for Submissions

Apex Book Company and the Ray Bradbury Center at Indiana University today announced After the Fire (working title), a forthcoming anthology honoring the legacy of Ray Bradbury, one...

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

This is a quote from Harry Bates' short story entitled "Farewell to the Master" which was first published in the October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction: "From his perch...

Five Sci-Fi Stories Set in Sandy Places

From Earth's deserts to Mars to the shifting dunes of uncharted planets... The post Five Sci-Fi Stories Set in Sandy Places appeared first on Reactor.

Ray Gunn trailer: Brad Bird blends sci-fi and film noir for a futuristic mystery

From "The Incredibles" director Brad Bird comes "Ray Gunn," a sci-fi noir starring Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson.

Brad Bird Shares the Classic Noir Films That Inspired RAY GUNN, From CHINATOWN to BLADE RUNNER

Ray Gunn

Brad Bird is back with Ray Gunn! The director of The Iron Giant and The Incredibles takes us to Metropia, a gigantic retro-futuristic city where private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn i...

On THE ROAD Again

We're discussing Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning post-apocalyptic novel THE ROAD.

Five Classic SF Stories First Published in Playboy

During the '60s and '70s, "Playboy" showcased some remarkable speculative writers The post Five Classic SF Stories First Published in <i>Playboy</i> appeared first on R...

Jump in the Deep End With Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick is a persistent, iconic cultural presence. His work has given us Blade Runner, Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly and a pair of Total Reca...

21 Years Ago, an Iconic Time Travel Story Finally Made It to Theaters, and It Was a Disaster From Start to Finish

While the sci-fi genre is one that spans a lot of themes, conventions, and ideas, there is one that is the absolute bread and butter of things: time travel. For as long a sci-fi ha...

RAY GUNN Trailer Sends Brad Bird’s Hard-Boiled Detective Into a Sci-Fi Noir World Full of Trouble

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

On this day in 1964, the anthology science fiction show The Outer Limits showed what television science fiction could be when it treated the genre as serious dramatic literature ra...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Has One Major Issue With Sci-Fi Movies. How Project Hail Mary Avoids It

Andy Weir should take a bow.

Pixel Scroll 9/23/26 There Is More Than 10% Chance Pixel Could File All Scrolls Within The Next Decade

(1) STOKERCON 2027 ADDS GOH. StokerCon, the Horror Writers Association’s annual event, announced its final GoH on Facebook today: The Horror Writers Association and StokerCon are p...

The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.

The author recommends poetry and post-apocalyptic works.

Quote of the Day

“One thing for you to think about. You appeared at the statue of Roland and his ka-tet; came to here from nowhere, so you did. Someone who saw called you the second coming of Jason...

Brad Bird Was Tired of Dystopian Sci-Fi, So RAY GUNN Takes a Very Different Approach to the Future

10 classic novels that predicted the world we’re living in today

Totalitarian states, religious intolerance, environmental collapse... come read our list!

Brad Bird Originally Envisioned Ray Liotta and Harry Dean Stanton in RAY GUNN

10 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read Before You Die

The ultimate reading list for mind-bending, genre-defining speculative fiction.

A Dystopian Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Confirmed as a Movie After 12 Years (And With the Perfect Director)

Official art by Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme As a filmmaker, Francis Lawrence is no stranger to adapting dystopian science fiction books for the biggest screen possible. In addition t...