FICTION
Released: May 28, 1992
"He has never written better."
Bradbury goes mainstream with a hymn to Ireland and alcohol, focusing on writing a screenplay with John Huston for the director's film Moby Dick.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1997
"Typically diverse, veering between sentiment and nostalgia, and set forth in the curiously mannered, modern-antique style that has become Bradbury's trademark."
Arriving too late for a full review, grandmaster Bradbury's latest collection (Quicker Than the Eye, 1996, etc.) consists of 17 new tales and 4 reprints, 197497.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 7, 1996
"So-so material for the most part; fans hoping for another Martian Chronicles or October Country face certain disappointment."
A collection of 21 tales from the Grandfather fantasist—none of which have appeared in book form before, though our galley doesn't tell us where they have appeared before, if they have, or when they were written.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Nov. 11, 1998
"Clearly labeled a fable, the tale has instruction built into most passages, but those passages are occasionally breathtaking."
From Bradbury (for adults, Quicker Than the Eye, 1996, etc.), a fantasy with moments of brilliance swamped by mystical befuddlement.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2001
"A far cry from the great early stories, but filled with a nostalgic charm that vitiates Bradbury's notorious rhetorical laxness and sentimentality. One of his most attractive and satisfying works in quite some time."
At last--a book you
can judge by its cover. For this one sports a wonderfully macabre illustration born of Charles Addams's brief collaboration with master fantasist Bradbury, best known for such classic fiction as
The Martian Chronicles (1950) and
Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2002
"Slight, affecting, voluble, exuberant—by a writer who feels life's even better than he can imagine."
Science fiction grandmaster Bradbury gathers together 25 stories, some half-baked, most unpublished.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 8, 2003
" Only one question remains: Has the superheated prose on display here finally caught up with the postmodernism of Don Webb's pastiches, or has postmodernism caught up with the prophetic Bradbury? Tune in next week."
A third sort-of-mystery for the screenwriter hero of
Death is a Lonely Business (1985) and
A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990), now grown old enough to be a disillusioned hack, but not old enough to have acquired a name.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 5, 2003
"His linked stories transporting Middle America to Mars in The Martian Chronicles (1950) gave him his biggest boost to fame, and though these shady-porch tales today may have a cheesecloth quality to their poetry, they remain his bubbling first masterpiece, with the present volume their bookend."
Ray Bradbury, now 83, selects 100 of his most celebrated tales from a lifetime in print twice the length of Poe's.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2004
"Bradbury on autopilot, mostly, mixing dashes of beautiful whimsy with gold-tinged nostalgia and the occasional sharp stab of pain. "
Forgotten or mislaid short fictions from a master who's given us better, but also much worse.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2005
"Essays made up mainly of declamation. Stick with the novels and stories that ensure Bradbury's place in the pantheon."
In three dozen pieces sometimes prickly and always passionate, SF/fantasy legend Bradbury fires off opinions galore on books, movies, SF and the people and places in his life.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 17, 2006
"A thin work, heavily reliant on dialogue, but one that serves as an intriguing coda to one of Bradbury's classics."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
"Writing for the fun of writing. A treat for the reader."
Two novellas from the big heart of an American original--one about time and music, the other a riff on
Moby-Dick.
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FICTION
Released: July 2, 1990
"A tall crock of kirsch and Classic Coke."
Hyperrhapsodic Hollywood fantasia borne on a soft-rubber mystery plot, or Moby Dick blown up on a trout's spine.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 1959
"The title is apt — the variety here is spice."
Science fiction and space give way here to the imaginative, fantastic and the inexplicable, in 22 stories that make up a swift kaleidoscope of patterns.
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FICTION
Released: March 26, 1975
"The poignant quality of Bradbury's writing, the evocative elements that will capture others than his usual audience, combine to make this an unusual reading experience."
The impossibility of pigeon-holding Ray Bradbury as a science fiction writer is once again emphasized in this charming philosophical study of adolescence.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 28, 1985
"Scott Joplin); and—on nearly every page—quirky blendings of creepiness and humor, innocence and decadence, nightmare and cartoon."
Though dedicated to the memory of mystery-writers Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and Macdonald, Bradbury's new novel—his first full-length fiction since Something Wicked This Way Comes—isn't really an homage to the hard-boiled detective genre.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 1983
"With foreword and introduction and lots of pictures (less than half of this 144-page booklet is text): a boutique serving for only the least serious or the dinosaur-happy of Bradbury fans."
Bradbury, enchanted by dinosaurs since childhood, has packaged "all of his dinosaur stories": three much-anthologized old yarns, that is, plus three new items (a story and two short poems), together with illustrations by William Stout, Steranko, Kenneth Smith, Moebius, David Wiesner, Gahan Wilson, and Overton Loyd.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 21, 1969
"Rice Crispies."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 30, 1976
"But it is from the same materials that he draws the more frequent moments which make you think of clean woods after thunderstorms—or a soul-destroying city summer and squandered happiness."
NONFICTION
Released: July 18, 1973
"Fifty Mars photos will be an important feature."
An engaging, sporadically informative scan of Mars with coordinates locked in on the 1971-72 voyage of Mariner 9, by an ebullient panel consisting of an optimistic Bradbury, a cautious Clarke and their opposite academic numbers, Carl Sagan (Cornell) and Bruce Murray (Cal Tech) plus New York Times Science Editor Walter Sullivan as interlocutor before a California audience.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 1962
"The Long Rain, The Time Machine, Frost and Fire are a few more of these exotic stories which act as a beacon light in the field of science fiction."
A mansized capsule of the best of Bradbury- gleaned from magazines and books- and dedicated to "starry" eyed young men with time to dream of crossing the line between truth and fiction.
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FICTION
Released: June 15, 1962
"Definitely for all admirers."
A somewhat fragmentary nocturnal shadows Jim Nightshade and his friend Will Halloway, born just before and just after midnight on the 31st of October, as they walk the thin line between real and imaginary worlds.
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FICTION
Released: March 19, 1953
"A very pleasant variety show."
A double dozen from a recognized science-fiction writer, these stories range further in subject than his expected field, so that this is not necessarily confined to bug-eyed monster devotees.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 1972
"Still Bradbury-Moundshroud is a spectacular guide to the nether regions and this may well be (as Tom Skelton called it) "both a trick and a treat" for other boys who are willing to plunge right in and let the devil take the doubters."
The lyric and expansive nostalgia for boyhood of Dandelion Wine, the extravagantly conjured atmosphere of Leon Garfield (but without his chilling intensity), the sometimes gratuitous fright-inciters (rattling bones and shuddering house) of the conventional Halloween story — all seem to temper the unabashed didacticism of the mysterious Mr. Moundshroud, who takes eight spookily costumed boys on a kite-and-broomstick timetrip in search of their friend Pippin and the meaning of Halloween.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 23, 1950
"A book which is not limited by its special field."
Scientific fiction enclosed in a frame — wanderer meets a tattooed man whose images foretell the future, leaving a space to preview the destiny of the viewer.
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FICTION
Released: May 4, 1950
"None of the complexities of concepts or formulae, this has an imaginative rather than technical ingenuity."
A flight of fancy in time and space which transcribes some incidents which take place on the planet of Mars, there's a literary, visionary quality here and an avoidance of the more mechanistic aspects of this medium.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 17, 1963
"Bradbury, in perfect orbit."
Whether the author's vision turns toward the future or peers into the past, his worlds of characters and their situations always carry the air of possibility.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 31, 1955
"The chilling imaginative virtuosity, the malignant momentum of terror, the occasional tenderness give these short stories a real superiority."
..... casts a somber spell, death is a familiar figure, and fancied fears assume a devastating reality.
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FICTION
Released: April 6, 2010
"No surprises—just a major, one-of-a-kind talent in full regalia."
Dinosaurs, vampires, time-warps, Green Town, lions, ghosts, Martians (of course), dreadful trips to Mexico, "The Parrot That Met Papa" Hemingway, strangely dreamy movie-houses in Ireland—100 stories by the always surprisingly versatile Mr. Bradbury.
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FICTION
Released: June 23, 1988
"Lyrical word-collage pasted around candy people: fantasy that just evaporates—and maybe best suited to a YA audience."
Bradbury's first story sheaf since The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) finds him more lyrically Bradburyesque than ever, in 22 new fantasies.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2009
"Nothing too surprising, but the stories are pleasant and evocative."
Never-before-published stories from the prolific--and increasingly nostalgic--author of classics such as
Fahrenheit 451 and
The Martian Chronicles.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 26, 1990
"Nonlovers may find the fare a bit exotic and rich."
Bradbury, all charged up, drunk on life, joyous with writing, puts together nine past essays on writing and creativity and discharges every ounce of zest and gusto in him.
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