In 1946 Bradbury met Marguerite Susan McClure. Bradbury quickly gained recognition as a talented writer. By the early 1940s, Bradbury's short stories appeared regularly in the popular pulp magazine Weird Tales, and by 1945 Bradbury was selling stories to the more prestigious "slick" magazines.
He began trying to sell his short stories to science fiction pulp magazines and was successful in 1941 when his first paid publication, a short story titled "Pendulum," appeared in Super Science Stories. He joined the Los Angeles Science Fiction League and became active in the "fandom" subculture in which groups of science fiction fans would publish their own magazines known as "fanzines." In 1939, Bradbury produced four issues of his own fanzine, Futuria Fantasia.īradbury graduated from high school in 1938 but lived with his parents while continuing to write. Bradbury attended Los Angeles High School, where he developed a true love for writing. Finally, in 1934, they settled permanently in Los Angeles. From 1926 to 1933 they moved back and forth from Arizona twice. The family moved often during Ray's childhood. Ray Bradbury was born on Augin Waukegan, Illinois to Esther Moberg and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury. This fear is directly reflected in "The Veldt," but in the story, Bradbury heightens the odds by creating a machine that not only allows children to detach emotionally from their parents, but one that can also physically destroy the parents, as well. Some people were afraid that watching too much television would lead to the total breakdown of the family unit. The rise in the popularity of television had a direct influence on Bradbury's story "The Veldt." At the time the story was written, many American families were acquiring their first television sets, and no one was sure exactly how this new technology would impact the relationships among family members. As a young boy, Bradbury was fascinated by the grotesque and sinister aspects he found lurking there, and these themes pervade many of his later works. Bradbury's use of a sideshow character as a framing device reflects his own interest in the world of the carnival and sideshow.
Each story is represented by a drawing upon the Illustrated Man's body and the stories come to life and tell themselves as he brings each new illustration into view. Bradbury tied these stories together with the framing device of the Illustrated Man himself.
The anthology is a collection of short stories, most of which had been previously published individually in pulp and slick magazines. It was the perfect follow-up to Bradbury's successful publication of The Martian Chronicles the year before, and it cemented his reputation as a great writer. Published in 1951 by Doubleday, the book was a great success with readers and critics alike. "The Veldt" is the first story in Ray Bradbury's anthology, The Illustrated Man.
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