Further Reading
- Bloom, Harold, ed., Ray Bradbury, Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001, 159 p. (Full-length critical overview of Bradbury's career that contains bibliographic information.)
- Boone, Alice, "Usher III," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 14, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 37-8. (Compares Bradbury's short story “Usher II,” Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List in terms of their treatment of the issues of censorship and freedom of expression.)
- Eller, Jon R., "The Stories of Ray Bradbury: An Annotated Finding List (1938-1991)," Bulletin of Bibliography 49, no. 1 (March 1992): 27-51. (Primary bibliography and title index.)
- Green, Roland, A review of One More for the Road, by Ray Bradbury, Booklist 98, no. 15 (1 April 2002): 1312. (Positive review of One More for the Road.)
- Greenberg, Martin Harry, and Joseph D. Olander, eds., Ray Bradbury, Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1980, 248 p. (Collection of essays by noted critics addressing Bradbury's major works, in addition to his style, themes, influences, and attitudes concerning religion and technology.)
- Guffey, George R., "The Unconscious, Fantasy, and Science Fiction: Transformations in Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and Lem's Solaris," In Bridges to Fantasy, pp. 142-59. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982. (Compares Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, concluding that "both incorporate significant amounts of dreamlike and mythlike" transformations.)
- Hamburger, Susan, A review of Driving Blind, by Ray Bradbury, Library Journal 122, no. 19 (15 November 1997): 78. (A laudatory assessment of Driving Blind.)
- Huntington, John, "An Economy of Reason: The Motives of the Technocratic Hero," In Rationalizing Genius, pp. 69-93. London: Rutgers University Press, 1989. (In a section entitled "Mars Is Heaven!", Huntington considers this Bradbury story atypical of the science fiction genre because of its relaxed treatment of scientific thought, but finds the story's emotional content satisfying.)
- Indick, Ben P., "Ray Bradbury: Still Talking and Still Listening," Publishers Weekly 248, no. 43 (22 October 2001): 40. (Interview in which Bradbury discusses his fiction and dramatic works.)
- Jacobs, Robert, "The Writer's Digest Interview: Bradbury," In Writer's Digest 56, No. 2 (February 1976): 18-25. (Insightful interview in which Bradbury discusses why, how, and about what he writes, focusing in particular on his place in the science fiction genre.)
- Johnson, Wayne L., Ray Bradbury, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1980, 173 p. (Provides a thorough thematic discussion of Bradbury's fiction.)
- Kagle, Steven E., "Homage to Melville: Ray Bradbury and the Nineteenth-Century American Romance," In The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, pp. 279-89. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989. (Compares Bradbury's writing to that of Herman Melville, asserting that Bradbury's literary method of internal exploration presents a romantic view of the twentieth century.)
- McGiveron, Rafeeq O., "'Do You Know the Legend of Hercules and Antaeus?' The Wilderness in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451," Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 38, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 102-09. (Examines the theme of the wilderness in Fahrenheit 451.)
- McGiveron, Rafeeq O., "'To Build a Mirror Factory': The Mirror and Self-Examination in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451," Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 39, no. 3 (Spring 1998): 282-87. (Discusses Bradbury's use of mirror imagery and how this relates to the theme of introspection.)
- Miller, Calvin, "Ray Bradbury: Hope in a Doubtful Age," In Reality and the Vision, pp. 92-101. Dallas: World Publishing, 1990. (Noted fantasy author Calvin Miller studies the spiritual aspects of Bradbury's work within a Christian framework, and lays claim to four reasons why he reads Bradbury's short fiction: to celebrate art, to broaden our understanding, to escape the heaviness of the moment, and to believe in a better world.)
- Mogen, David, Ray Bradbury, Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986, 186 p. (Solid introduction to Bradbury's life, career, and major works of fiction.)
- Moskowitz, Sam, "Ray Bradbury," In Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction, pp. 352-73. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1966. (Biocritical examination of Bradbury's short fiction.)
- Sullivan, Anita T., "Ray Bradbury and Fantasy," English Journal 61, No. 9 (December 1972): 1309-314. (Distinguishes between instances of horror and fantasy in Bradbury's short fiction.)
- Touponce, William F., "Some Aspects of Surrealism in the Work of Ray Bradbury," Extrapolation 25, No. 3 (Fall 1984): 228-38. (Examines surrealist elements in Bradbury's works, particularly in "The Rocket Man.")
- Touponce, William F., "The Existential Fabulous: A Reading of Ray Bradbury's The Golden Apples of the Sun'," Mosaic VIII, No. 3-4 (Spring/Summer 1980): 203-18. (Studies mythopoetic elements in Bradbury's "The Golden Apples of the Sun," arguing that "Bradbury has given us a fable of modern consciousness which often forgets . . . its Promethean debt to the unconscious.")
- Valis, Noël M., "The Martian Chronicles and Jorge Luis Borges," Extrapolation 20, No. 1 (Spring 1979): 50-9. (Compares Bradbury's themes of identity, personality, and time in The Martian Chronicles to those of modern Latin American writing as typified by Jorge Luis Borges.)
- Weist, Jerry, Bradbury: An Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphor, New York: Morrow, c.2002, 208 p. (Full-length biography of Bradbury.)
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