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FICTION

Released: Sept. 30, 1976

LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT

by Ray Bradbury

"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."

After seven very long years, a new and generous (twenty-two stories) Bradbury collection. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: June 1, 1983

DINOSAUR TALES

by Ray Bradbury

"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. Read full book review >

Cover art for DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS

FICTION

Released: Oct. 28, 1985

DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS

by Ray Bradbury

"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. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: June 23, 1988

THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR

by Ray Bradbury

"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. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: March 26, 1990

ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING: ESSAYS ON CREATIVITY

by Ray Bradbury

"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. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: July 2, 1990

A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS: ANOTHER TALE OF TWO CITIES

by Ray Bradbury

"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. Read full book review >

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