Ray Bradbury and Pulp Fiction Novels

Pulp novels may not be highly appreciated in the world of literature but they have certainly played an important role in its development. Every important actor is known to have contributed to or at least enjoyed the rather easy stories presented in comic books and pulp books in general and they have represented a starting point in their further development. Ray Bradbury is one of the many great American writers who have started working at pulp fiction novels before becoming the great names that we all know.

Ray Bradbury was born in 1920 and he is a well known American writer whose talent has been widely recognized in literary genres such as fantasy, horror, science fiction and mystery. He is perhaps best known thanks to his novel published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451 and for The Illustrated Man as well as The Martian Chronicles. Bradbury is certainly one of the best known writers in America and he is often described as a Midwest surrealist with a great influence on and from speculative fiction.

The career of Bradbury as a writer began roughly in 1938 when he started publishing science fiction stories in fanzines. He was obviously not receiving any money for his publications but he started networking and connecting to people who could greatly influence his career. One of these men was Forrest J Ackerman, who invited Bradbury to the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society where Bradbury had the opportunity to meet important writers such as Frederic Brown, Jack Williamson, Robert Heinlein and more. At the same time, his first published story appeared in a fanzine called Imagination also in 1938. A year later, Bradbury launched his own fanzine, Futuria Fantasia. But the first piece that Bradbury wrote and which had receive some sort of remuneration was his ‘Pendulum’, a short story published in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in 1941 and which opened the path to a successful career.