Description
Paperback. Pub Date :2008-12-01 Pages: 864 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK A scintillating collection of stories from the master of science fiction.Since the beginning of his career in the 1940s. Ray Bradbury has become synonymous with great science fiction from the pulp comic books of his early work to his adaptations for television. stage and screen and most notably for his masterpiece. Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury has done a rare thing;. to capture both the popular and literary imagination.Within these pages the reader will be transported to foreign and extraordinary worlds. become transfixed by visions of the past. present. and future and be left humbled and inspired by one of most absorbing and engaging writers of this century. and the last.This is the second of two volumes offering the very best of his short stories including The Garbage Collector. The Mach...
About the Author
In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston s classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television s The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.
Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."
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