The FBI Suspected Ray Bradbury of Being a Communist
The FBI file on Ray Bradbury reveals the federal government was investigating the legendary author for being a communist in the 1950s and 1960s. Using a Freedom of Information Act Request, the Huffington Post received a copy of Bradbury’s file, and it turns out the FBI checked Bradbury’s passport records and staked out his house.…
One anthology contains the most amazing visions of future Japan
In his introduction to The Future is Japanese, co-editor Nick Mamatas notes that Japanese Science Fiction is just like “Western Science Fiction, in that it is hard and soft, dark and whimsical, rigorous and fantastical.” And Mamatas’ new book, coedited with Masumi Washington, serves as a fantastic bridge between Western and Japanese SF. The anthology…
Infinity Ring: A New Time Travel Series from Scholastic
Scholastic has just announced their next big multi-platform project and this time, it’s science fiction. Introducing Infinity Ring (Scholastic’s follow-up to The 39 Clues), a time-travel book that takes kids into the battle for history itself. In 2008 (two years before the introduction of the iPad) Scholastic realized that in the future kids wouldn’t be…