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Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012 (page 2)


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Cover art for R IS FOR ROCKET
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE MACHINERIES OF JOY
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!
FICTION
Released: Oct. 21, 1969

"Rice Crispies."
Eighteen stories, Bradbury's first collection in five years. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE HALLOWEEN TREE
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 1972
by Ray Bradbury, illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini

"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. Read full book review >
Cover art for MARS AND THE MIND OF MAN
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for DANDELION WINE
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. Read full book review >