Robert Heinlein

Downtown L.A. square to be named for Ray Bradbury

2012-12-06 09:34:18

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An entertainment attorney's sci-fi heart

2012-11-29 04:30:00

Air Force Capt. Harry "Skip" Brittenham was stranded in officers' quarters in Washington, D.C., during a snowstorm in 1964 when he found a copy of "The Fellowship of the Ring," the first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." He...

PASSINGS: Harry Harrison, Nellie Gray

2012-08-17 00:00:00

Harry Harrison Science fiction author's work inspired 'Soylent Green' Harry Harrison, 87, an author whose space-age spoofs delighted generations of science fiction fans, died Wednesday in southern England, according to his friend and fellow sci-fi...

Ray Bradbury: Author's roots at L.A. high school celebrated

2012-06-06 16:35:27

Fans create unofficial new trailer for Disney's 'John Carter'

2012-02-23 21:33:21

Summer page-turners

2011-05-22 00:00:00

Act of Passion A Novel Georges Simenon New York Review Books: $14.95 paper Though successful at his work and family life, a doctor grows dissatisfied and restless and thinks a casual affair is the perfect answer—until the consequences are far...

2011 Hugo Award nominees announced

2011-04-25 16:35:00

David Nolan dies at 66; founder of the Libertarian Party

2010-11-26 00:00:00

David F. Nolan, whose disgruntlement with conventional politics — especially President Nixon's imposition of wage and price controls in 1971 — drove him to launch the Libertarian Party with a small group of friends, has died. He was 66. Nolan...

Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings

2010-12-10 14:30:00

"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...

Frank Herbert's 'Dune' holds timely - and timeless - appeal

2010-04-18 00:00:00

Half a century ago, a middle-aged newspaperman with a few obscure books to his name sat down to pursue a pet obsession based on a story that had never sold. The ensuing 1965 novel -- in which his agent had no confidence -- sagged at first. But within a...

New media and publishing, starring Wil Wheaton

2010-04-28 16:33:49

Philip K. Dick in the O.C.

2010-05-24 16:34:17

In "Stranger in a Strange Land," Valentine Michael Smith is born and raised on Mars; when he comes to Earth, he is baffled by humans, whose society he eventually transforms. This science fiction classic is a trippy novel. Can you grok it?

2012-08-06 13:02:20

Kelly Freas, the artist who helped create the Mad Magazine mascot and sometimes presidential candidate Alfred E. Newman, is dead at age 82. He died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005.

2005-01-11 00:00:00