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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 >

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: March 26, 1975

DANDELION WINE

by Ray Bradbury

"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 >

NONFICTION

Released: July 18, 1973

MARS AND THE MIND OF MAN

by Ray Bradbury

"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 >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Sept. 1, 1972

THE HALLOWEEN TREE

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 >

FICTION

Released: Oct. 21, 1969

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!

by Ray Bradbury

"Rice Crispies."

Eighteen stories, Bradbury's first collection in five years. Read full book review >

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