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Moderator

Maurice Broaddus

Maurice Broaddus

An Award-Winning Afrofuturist, editor, and librarian, Maurice Broaddus has had over a hundred short stories published in such places as Lightspeed Magazine, Black Panther: Tales from Wakanda, Out There Screaming (edited by Jordan Peele), The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand, Asimov’s, Weird Tales, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Apex Magazine. With over a dozen novels in print, his latest include Sweep of Stars, Breath of Oblivion, A City Dreaming, Black Panther: T’Challa Declassified, & Unfadeable. Some of his short stories have been collected in The Voices of Martyrs.

Panelist

Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Angel Down was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2025 ,and a national bestseller. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, the New York Times, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and more.

About Ray Bradbury

  • He was a prolific writer. During his career, Bradbury wrote more than 600 short stories, novels, plays, poems, and screenplays.
  • He never attended college. Bradbury educated himself by spending countless hours reading at public libraries, which he called his "university."
  • He loved science fiction and fantasy. Although often labeled a science fiction writer, many of his works blend fantasy, horror, and magical realism, including The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
  • Fun Fact: Ray Bradbury didn't know how to drive a car! He never got a driver's license and relied on walking, bicycles, taxis, and public transportation throughout his life. Despite writing imaginative stories about the future and space travel, he preferred getting around without driving.
Ray Bradbury photograph by Alan White, 1975

Ray Bradbury Center and Museum

The Ray Bradbury Center is one of the larger single-author archives in the United States, and a hub for scholarship on the work of Ray Bradbury and science fiction.

The Center is home to more than 100,000 pages of published and unpublished literary works stored in thirty-one of the author’s filing cabinets; forty years of Bradbury’s personal and professional correspondence (an additional 10,000 pages); and author’s copies of Bradbury books, including extensive foreign language editions, and his working library (a combined 4000 volumes).

The Bradbury artifacts gifted in 2013 include his original office furniture and equipment, as well as three of his typewriters used over a forty-year period; many significant national and international awards, mementoes, and other artifacts from his personal office

Learn more about the Ray Bradbury Center

Contact the center:

Cavanaugh Hall, Room 121
425 University Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-1451
bradbury@iu.edu