"Seed provides useful cultural context, as well as persuasive analyses." --Orbit"Makes a significant contribution to the study of Bradbury's science fiction by carrying his survey and analysis on through the entire arc of Bradbury's creative life, further than any earlier studies were able to take it. Seed also demonstrates full command of the critical legacy, which is now incredibly broad in terms of academic, journalistic, and popular media responses to Bradbury's very special brand of science fiction." --Jonathan R. Eller, author of Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound"David Seed's excellent study of Ray Bradbury's extensive and diverse corpus fulfills more than one essential function in critical writings on the author… Seed's study is rigorous and comprehensive."--Science Fiction Studies