Ray Bradbury

Science-fiction author who appears in Kyle’s Historical Futurism - Research doc as part of the working media list — the “literature of dreaming” that feeds the Historical Futurism essay’s thesis that optimistic speculative fiction is upstream of building the future. Two of his short stories are catalogued there: “A Sound of Thunder” and “The Veldt,” kept alongside work by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and other Science Fiction writers as raw material for the essay.

Context: Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was an American author best known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, and a foundational figure in 20th-century science fiction and fantasy.

Where this appears

• Historical Futurism - Research — listed in the speculative-fiction reading catalog (“A Sound of Thunder,” “The Veldt”) behind the Historical Futurism essay.