Bradbury's writings are not your typical science fiction. Although the future and its technology have a well-established place it is not the key part in any of his stories. Bradbury is a very controversial writer whose most severe criticism comes from inside the science fiction community. No definition of science fiction exists that pleases everybody and to attempt to apply one casually to Ray Bradbury would be unfair. Many people inside the science fiction field argue whether Bradbury is truly a science fiction writer. At the time it was thought by those in the field of science fiction that good science fiction needed to be consistent with known science and Bradbury's work was not. Many of the critics were doubtful of his credentials as a real science fiction writer even though he is widely seen as a science fiction prophet by the public. He has been referred to as not only a science fiction writer but as a fantasy writer in the tradition of the great Edgar Allen Poe. In fact Bradbury himself has been quoted as saying "I am
Bradbury's writings are not your typical science fiction. Although the future and its technology have a well-established place it is not the key part in any of his stories. Bradbury is a very controversial writer whose most severe criticism comes from inside the science fiction community. No definition of science fiction exists that pleases everybody and to attempt to apply one casually to Ray Bradbury would be unfair. Many people inside the science fiction field argue whether Bradbury is truly a science fiction writer. At the time it was thought by those in the field of science fiction that good science fiction needed to be consistent with known science and Bradbury's work was not. Many of the critics were doubtful of his credentials as a real science fiction writer even though he is widely seen as a science fiction prophet by the public. He has been referred to as not only a science fiction writer but as a fantasy writer in the tradition of the great Edgar Allen Poe. In fact Bradbury himself has been quoted as saying "I am