Tag Archives: Ray Bradbury

Friendship is an island that you retreat to…

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Brian D. Butler

Blank on Blank is a project from Brooklyn-based Quoted Studios, which aims to preserve American interviews through animation. The wonderful video below features a long-lost interview between the iconic author Ray Bradbury and a young journalist named Chad Coates from … Continue reading →

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Just In time for Halloween

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Brian D. Butler

I was browsing in the remodeled store of a local book chain and ran across some amazing new editions from Penguin that sport covers curated by Academy Award-winning filmmaker and sci fi/horror writer Guillermo del Torro. The series, which includes … Continue reading →

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Ray Bradbury Saw It Coming

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Over his long and illustrious career, Ray Bradbury demonstrated an uncanny ability to predict technological innovations and sociocultural change. Many concepts and devices in his short stories and novels eventually became commonplace. Bradbury predicted everything from automatic banking machines to omnipresent electronic surveillance. … Continue reading →

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