The Miracle Year: Winter and Spring

Tür:

Kitap

Yazar:

Jonathan R. Eller

Yayın yılı:

2017

Yayıncı:

University of Illinois Press

This chapter focuses on Ray Bradbury's auspicious year as a writer during the winter and spring of 1950. Between the fall of 1949 and the fall of 1950, Bradbury submitted major works such as <italic>The Martian Chronicles</italic> and <italic>The Illustrated Man</italic> to various publications. His readers were beginning to make little distinction between his science fiction, his fantasy, and his semiautobiographical Green Town stories. Finally, Don Congdon was overcoming major market editorial resistance to Bradbury's stylistic originality and his specialized subjects. This chapter examines Bradbury's remarkable successes during the first weeks of 1950, which saw his science fiction tales “There Will Come Soft Rains” and “To the Future” being bought by <italic>Collier's</italic>, and “The Illustrated Man” by <italic>Esquire</italic>. It also discusses other significant developments in Bradbury's career, including a productive publishing visit to New York, his return to California to receive his “Invisible Little Man” award, and make his keynote address at the Bay Area society's annual banquet.

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