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Steinbeck’s gripping masterpiece, two migrant field workers travel through California in search of their very own piece of the American Dream. Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street, 7.45pm, £14.50-£29, 0131-248 4848 Ray Bradbury’s own adaptation of his...

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have announced the finalists for this year’s Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Andre Norton Award. Needless to say, Tor.com is jazzed to see Charlie Jane Anders’s outstanding story “Six...

"Somebody told me that I wasn't very good at (writing). But I read a lot of the sci-fi greats growing up -- Ray Bradbury is my favorite. I picked up a lot of how to tell a good story from them rather than book-learning," said Harrison, 45, who, under...

The title track was conceptualized by singer/guitarist Sherri DuPree-Bemis when she read the novelist’s short story Rocket Man. The story eventually moved her to write the track about a couple who is leaving Earth for a life in space, knowing full

I took the bus to White Center for a bike repair event at a food bank there. On the map, it looked like I would get off the 60 and walk a few blocks through an urban grid to my destination. I was unprepared to step into a new urbanist colony, but there...

It wasn't long after King discovered the wonderful world of that he sent Forry a story he wrote in 1960. It was the very first time King ever sent anything out in the hopes of being published. Ackerman was also a literary agent, he represented Ray...

Bradbury’s own adaptation of his dystopian sci-fi novel. Bedlam Theatre, Bristo Place, 7.30pm, £6, 0131 225 9893 In Steinbeck’s gripping masterpiece, two migrant field workers travel through California in search of their very own piece of the American...

"This is a new beginning. It's not the end. Marta will focus on what she wants to do with her art. She'll continue to meet with visitors." There's even a plan to develop "Dinner and a Movie with Marta" nights at the opera house. No doubt they'll be a...

Moby-Dick’s otherwise simple storyline has been made into at least three normal-length screenplays and more than one stage play, but stripped of Herman Melville’s seeming descriptive excess, the results are often surprisingly bloodless (the 1956 film...

That's a great set-up, and I've always been a sucker for stories exploring the ramifications of troubled first contact scenarios (Ray Bradbury's THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, several episodes of the original STAR TREK series, and much of human history being...

...arts classes in the Appleton Area School District: ť "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie ť "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson ť "Hitler Youth" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ť "A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmeal...

Ready to play with your food? Well, put all your senses (taste, touch, sense, smell) on alert. Then, as Braun Costello puts it, “mess with the recipe.” Armed with a few of her ideas below, head into the kitchen with this quote she offers from writer...

With apologies to Ray Bradbury, the famous title of his short story is far more than the annotation on a map when it comes to Kentucky. Rupp Arena has become a place where teams, good and bad, have been forced to abandon hope of victory for the last...

Chaon talks about how he's wanted to be a writer since he was five years old and how a letter from Ray Bradbury encouraged him in his craft. Jeff Glor talks to Dan Chaon about the differences in writing for the screen versus short stories and novels. ...

Chaon talks about how he's wanted to be a writer since he was five years old and how a letter from Ray Bradbury encouraged him in his craft. Dan Chaon talks about how he's wanted to be a writer since he was five years old and how a letter from Ray...

Chaon talks about how he's wanted to be a writer since he was five years old and how a letter from Ray Bradbury encouraged him in his craft. Chaon on short stories, novels and screenplays Jeff Glor talks to Dan Chaon about the differences in writing for...

I had the idea that I wanted to write a collection of ghost stories. I was thinking about the amazing collections of ghost stories by writers like Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bowen, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, M.R. James, E. Nesbit, etc. I was also...

"I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities." Caleb Crain on pronoun trouble and Elizabeth Bishop's paintings. The...