Influences In Ray Bradbury's Writings
Influences in Ray Bradbury's Writings
Science fiction and personal experiences aren’t the most compatible of things, but Ray Bradbury is most influenced by his past. His plots can be traced to a certain time period or event in his life. Some critics also denounce that some of Bradbury's stories are poor examples of the genre of science fiction because they allude so much to American history in the 20th century, thus missing the extraterrestrial and futuristic aspects the readers expect to encounter. The most recurring influences were his childhood experiences, his small-American hometown in Illinois, and various literary works and their authors.
Ever since Ray Bradbury was a young boy, he had been drawn into the world of fictional art. He was fascinated and sucked in by the creations of the entertainment industry. His favorite fiction focused on wonder and adventure, which he enjoyed on the radio, in motion pictures, in comics, and in pulp and slick magazines. He loved authors Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne. They were both science fiction writers and their works were popular at the time. Burroughs was still in the process of finishing his Mars series, …show more content…
Bradbury was interested in expanding his stories to be film productions, and he was involved in a number of projects to do so, but most of them never got completed. Bradbury expanded his topics and genres, writing different literary pieces, but his main genre was science fiction, sometimes with a splash of gothic horror. Bradbury knew he had a style no one else at the time did, so he made a point of developing it. With influences such as personal experiences and values, the quaint town of Waukegan during the 1920s and fellow science fiction writers, Bradbury wrote stories were unique, encapturing, and worthy of being on the stage or the
Science fiction and personal experiences aren’t the most compatible of things, but Ray Bradbury is most influenced by his past. His plots can be traced to a certain time period or event in his life. Some critics also denounce that some of Bradbury's stories are poor examples of the genre of science fiction because they allude so much to American history in the 20th century, thus missing the extraterrestrial and futuristic aspects the readers expect to encounter. The most recurring influences were his childhood experiences, his small-American hometown in Illinois, and various literary works and their authors.
Ever since Ray Bradbury was a young boy, he had been drawn into the world of fictional art. He was fascinated and sucked in by the creations of the entertainment industry. His favorite fiction focused on wonder and adventure, which he enjoyed on the radio, in motion pictures, in comics, and in pulp and slick magazines. He loved authors Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne. They were both science fiction writers and their works were popular at the time. Burroughs was still in the process of finishing his Mars series, …show more content…
Bradbury was interested in expanding his stories to be film productions, and he was involved in a number of projects to do so, but most of them never got completed. Bradbury expanded his topics and genres, writing different literary pieces, but his main genre was science fiction, sometimes with a splash of gothic horror. Bradbury knew he had a style no one else at the time did, so he made a point of developing it. With influences such as personal experiences and values, the quaint town of Waukegan during the 1920s and fellow science fiction writers, Bradbury wrote stories were unique, encapturing, and worthy of being on the stage or the