Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction focuses on the nature of Bradbury's writing, exploring his profound involvement with the life of carnival asa textual process as well as a thematic concern in his writings, and each chapter of this book delves more deeply into how this process of meaning has shaped Bradbury's technique over the years. Bradbury's authorship is finally seen asoccupying a unique position in our literary landscape,one that operates on the borders of popular entertainment and serious literature.