A statue of the famed science fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury is to be erected in front of the library in his home town of Waukegan, Illinois. The statue, Ray Bradbury: Fantastical Traveller, has been designed by the artist Zachary Oxman. It will be cast in stainless steel and stand about four metres high. The work depicts the author in his later years, sitting joyfully astride an old fashioned space rocket, as depicted on the covers of such books as R is For Rocket and The Martian Chronicles. Oxman commented, ‘Bradbury’s writing was not rooted in the possible world, but rather in a fantastical one. I wanted to evoke that whimsicality.’