Monsterpal wrote:
Heinlein published "The Green Hills of Earth" in the Saturday Evening Post, February 8th, 1947 edition. Bradbury appeared in Collier's and the Post in 1950, his earliest slick publications that I can find. Furthermore, DESTINATION MOON was released a full three years before any film with Bradbury's name on it. Heinlein was just as famous as Bradbury then and now, maybe even more so.
Okay, Bradbury was a liberal then and he's a conservative now. I was mistaken. But is there any evidence that Bradbury held Alland's politics against him?
Only logic.  But you are still dead wrong about the relative fame of Heinlein and Bradbury in those years.  Heinlein was simpy not well known to the public at large; Ray Bradbury was.  (Probably because of a difference in agents).  And yes, I actually do remember this, though I was but a wee bairn at the time.

Ted: Yes, of course William Alland had been a staunch lefty; that's how he knew the names to name.  But he didn't name the most names; that was done by Martin Berkely, who worked for William Alland.  (Naming names was a means that HUAC had to exert power and show their domination; actually, they already had the names of every member of the CPUSA, and had them even before the HUAC investigation into Hollywood began.  Also, it was not illegal to be a member of the Communist Party (later on, it was for a short while).


    

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