[magslinger]

I take the whole article, quote and all, with a grain of salt. The author very obviously knows little about science fiction and doesn't seem very capable of using the Internet for research.

Michael Crichton wrote some pretty respectable science fiction in the twentieth century, but he was not one of the greats to go with RAH or ACC.

(George) Orson Welles, to my knowledge, never wrote any science fiction other than a radio play adaptation of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds.

Bradbury's credentials as a science fiction author are IMHO suspect. No other science fiction author was required reading in general literature courses.

[atomic conspiracy]

Welles didn't even write the radio adaptation, Howard Koch did. Koch also wrote the screenplay for Mission to Moscow, the notorious wartime whitewash of Stalinism, and was later blacklisted after a run-in with HUAC.