Portland State University PDXScholar Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Publications and Presentations Planning 7-1-2005 Homesteading on the Extraterrestrial Frontier Carl Abbott Portland State University,
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[email protected]. 240 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 32 (2005) Carl Abbott Homesteading on the Extraterrestrial Frontier The colony was made up of homesteaders and townies. The townies worked for the government and lived in government-owned buildings.... But most of the colonials were homesteaders and that’s what George had meant us to be. Like most everybody, we had come out there on the promise of free land and a chance to raise our own food.—Heinlein 105 Johnny Appleseeds. Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein define opposite poles in postwar American science fiction. Bradbury made and sustained his reputation as a stylist who crafted small stories with big emotional wallops. He has published only one sf novel—Fahrenheit 451 (1953)—but many collections of loosely connected stories that wander back and forth among sf, fantasy, and nostalgic realism.