Bradbury's Mars (not used 2015)

The official promotional site for the late Ray Bradbury.

Bradbury's New York Times obit.

A nonacademic but detailed Bradbury fan site.

Waukegan, Bradbury's home town.

But he writes Martian Chronicles in southern California:

The arid and expanding metropolis of midcentury L.A.

The California desert. People settle there.

Mars is our dying planet, says Robert Markley. The famous canals.

Martian fantasies.

An allegory for real first contact and American history. Ishi.

Where a lot of sf really takes place. A place for you in it.

A place beyond it.

Another genre on which Bradbury draws.

Kipling and Smith (not used in 2015)

Rudyard Kipling in youth, and a bit older (1926).

Kipling's "With the Night Mail" (1905), the prequel to "As Easy as A. B. C."

British India in Kipling's youth.

Suspicion of democratic governance, and fear of mob rule, goes back a long way.

One memorable problem with mob rule.

Democracy is great!

The Wright brothers' Simms Station flight school in 1911. Manufacturing Wright brothers airplanes in 1910. Models Ds over New York in 1910.

Another influential work by Paul M. A. Linebarger, a.k.a. Cordwainer Smith.

Part of Smith's former day job.

More stories online by Cordwainer Smith, from the "official" fan site (run by his daughter).

Smith's memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

Nearly random example of a linear graph.