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Bradbury Beyond Apollo

Jonathan R. Eller
Bradbury Beyond Apollo Book PDF

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252052293

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Bradbury Beyond Apollo by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age—by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for generations of new fans. Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him into a wider range of nonfiction writing and public lectures, the diminishing time that remained for creative pursuits went toward Hollywood productions like the award-winning series Ray Bradbury Theater. Bradbury developed the Spaceship Earth narration at Disney's EPCOT Center; appeared everywhere from public television to NASA events to comic conventions; published poetry; and mined past triumphs for stage productions that enjoyed mixed success. Distracted from storytelling as he became more famous, Bradbury nonetheless published innovative experiments in autobiography masked as detective novels, the well-received fantasy The Halloween Tree and the masterful time travel story "The Toynbee Convector." Yet his embrace of celebrity was often at odds with his passion for writing, and the resulting tension continuously pulled at his sense of self. The revelatory conclusion to the acclaimed three-part biography, Bradbury Beyond Apollo tells the story of an inexhaustible creative force seeking new frontiers.

Becoming Ray Bradbury

Jonathan R. Eller
Becoming Ray Bradbury Book PDF

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252093357

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Becoming Ray Bradbury by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

Becoming Ray Bradbury chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theater. Jonathan R. Eller measures the impact of the authors, artists, illustrators, and filmmakers who stimulated Bradbury's imagination throughout his first three decades. Unprecedented access to Bradbury's personal papers and other private collections provides insight into his emerging talent through his unpublished correspondence, his rare but often insightful notes on writing, and his interactions with those who mentored him during those early years. Beginning with his childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, and Los Angeles, this biography follows Bradbury's development from avid reader to maturing author, making a living writing for the genre pulps and mainstream magazines. Eller illuminates the sources of Bradbury's growing interest in the human mind, the human condition, and the ambiguities of life and death--themes that became increasingly apparent in his early fiction. Bradbury's correspondence documents his frustrating encounters with the major trade publishing houses and his earliest unpublished reflections on the nature of authorship. Eller traces the sources of Bradbury's very conscious decisions, following the sudden success of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, to voice controversial political statements in his fiction. Eller also elucidates the complex creative motivations that yielded Fahrenheit 451. Becoming Ray Bradbury reveals Bradbury's emotional world as it matured through his explorations of cinema and art, his interactions with agents and editors, his reading discoveries, and the invaluable reading suggestions of older writers. These largely unexplored elements of his life pave the way to a deeper understanding of his more public achievements, providing a biography of the mind, the story of Bradbury's self-education and the emerging sense of authorship at the heart of his boundless creativity.

Ray Bradbury Unbound

Jonathan R. Eller
Ray Bradbury Unbound Book PDF

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252096631

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Ray Bradbury Unbound by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

In Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan R. Eller continues the story begun in his acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury, following the beloved author's evolution from a short story master to a multi-media creative force and outspoken visionary. At the height of his powers as a poetic prose stylist, Bradbury shifted his creative attention to film and television, where new successes gave him an enduring platform as a compelling cultural commentator. His passionate advocacy validated the U.S. space program's mission, extending his pivotal role as a chronicler of human values in an age of technological wonders. Informed by many years of interviews with Bradbury as well as an unprecedented access to personal papers and private collections, Ray Bradbury Unbound provides the definitive portrait of how a legendary American author helped shape his times.

Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury
Killer Come Back To Me The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury Book PDF

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789095401

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Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centennial, a deluxe illustrated commemorative collection of his finest crime stories -- tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called "one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written." Is it murder to destroy a robot if it looks and speaks and thinks and feels like a human being? Can a ventriloquist be incriminated by the testimony of his own dummy? Can a time traveler prevent his younger self from killing the woman they both loved? And can the survivor of a pair of Siamese twins investigate his own brother's murder? No other writer has ever rivaled the imagination and narrative gifts of Ray Bradbury, and the 20 unforgettable stories in this collection demonstrate this singular writer's extraordinary range, influence and emotional power.

Beyond Apollo

Barry N. Malzberg
Beyond Apollo Book PDF

Author : Barry N. Malzberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : 0571105106

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Beyond Apollo by Barry N. Malzberg Pdf

Science fiction-roman.

Beyond Apollo

Barry Malzberg
Beyond Apollo Book PDF

Author : Barry Malzberg
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795323485

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Beyond Apollo by Barry Malzberg Pdf

Winner of the first John W. Campbell Memorial Award. “A mind-bending read . . . certainly entertaining, often very funny and very thought-provoking.” —Medium A two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain is missing and the other astronaut, Harry M. Evans, is unable to explain what has happened. Or, conversely, he has too many explications; his journal of the expedition—compiled in the mental institution to which NASA has embarrassedly committed him—offers contradictory stories: he murdered the Captain, mad Venusian invaders murdered the Captain, the Captain vanished, no one was murdered and the Captain has returned in Evans’s guise. As the explanations pyramid and the supervising psychiatrist’s increasingly desperate efforts to get a straight story fail, it becomes apparent that Evans’s madness and his inability to explain what happened are expressions of humanity’s incompetence at the enormity of space exploration. “Barry Malzberg’s dark, bleak vision of the future is one of the most terrifying ever to come out of science fiction.” —Robert Silverberg “Beyond Apollo is a masterpiece; a multi-faceted rumination on repression; a virulent critique of the space program and America’s obsession with space.” —Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations “A light shone through a crystal. The reader never gets to see the crystal or the light, only the resulting refraction . . . a very satisfying work of post-modern science fiction.” —Speculiction “Veins of gold . . . a beautiful and heart-breaking book.”—Fantasy and Science Fiction “Written with wit . . . the most original and pleasing SF novel of the last five years.”—Brian Aldiss, New Review

Ray Bradbury

Jonathan R. Eller,William F. Touponce
Ray Bradbury Book PDF

Author : Jonathan R. Eller,William F. Touponce
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873387791

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Ray Bradbury by Jonathan R. Eller,William F. Touponce Pdf

This is a textual, bibliographical and cultural study of 60 years of Bradbury's fiction. The authors draw upon correspondence with his publishers, agents and friends, as well as archival manuscripts, to examine the story of Bradbury's authorship over more than half a century.

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine Book PDF

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553277531

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Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Pdf

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of. The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated. • He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began. • Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine. • Could live underwater two minutes and slide fifty yards downstream. • Could hit baseballs into apple trees, knocking down harvests. • Could jump six-foot orchard walls. • Ran laughing. • Sat easy. • Was not a bully. • Was kind. • Knew the words to all the cowboy songs and would teach you if you asked. • Knew the names of all the wild flowers and when the moon would rise or set and when the tides came in or out. He was, in fact, the only god living in the whole of Green Town, Illinois, during the twentieth century that Douglas Spaulding knew of. “[Ray] Bradbury is an authentic original.”—Time

Beyond Earth's Edge

Julie Swarstad Johnson,Christopher Cokinos
Beyond Earth s Edge Book PDF

Author : Julie Swarstad Johnson,Christopher Cokinos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816539197

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Beyond Earth's Edge by Julie Swarstad Johnson,Christopher Cokinos Pdf

Beyond Earth's Edge vividly captures through poetry the violence of blastoff, the wonders seen by Hubble, and the trajectories of exploration to Mars and beyond. The anthology offers a fascinating record of both national mindsets and private perspectives as poets grapple with the promise and peril of U.S. space exploration across decades and into the present.

Remembrance

Ray Bradbury
Remembrance Book PDF

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781668016992

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Remembrance by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection of his letters could illuminate the story of his life in new ways. That story emerges across time and memory from the pages of Remembrance. Ray Bradbury was one of the best-known writers and creative dreamers of our time. The many honors he received, which included an Emmy and an Academy Award nomination for adaptations of his work, culminated in the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a 2004 National Medal of Arts, and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. For many years NASA and the Disney Studio felt the impact of Ray Bradbury’s creativity, and his fiction has found its way into hundreds of anthologies, textbooks, and the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read program. His enduring legacy as a storyteller, novelist, and space-age visionary radiated out into popular adaptations for stage, film, and television, and now the fascinating narratives and insights of his personal and professional correspondence are revealed for the first time. Remembrance offers the first sustained look at his life in letters from his late teens to his ninth decade. Bradbury’s correspondence was far-reaching—he interacted with a rich cross section of 20th-century cultural figures, writers, film directors, editors, and others who simply wanted insights or encouragement from a writer who had enriched their lives through his stories and novels. Bradbury scholar and biographer, Jonathan R. Eller, organized this volume into categories of correspondents, showing Bradbury’s progression through life as he knew it, and not necessarily as the public perceived him. Letters to and from mentors and other writers are followed by correspondence with such film directors as John Huston, François Truffaut, and Federico Fellini. Letters with publishers and agents are followed by letters that capture moments of national and international recognition, the shadows of war and intolerance that motivated some of his best writing, and the friends and family members who shared the memories of his life. Among the writers whose letters illuminate Remembrance are Theodore Sturgeon, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Twilight Zone writers Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, Dan Chaon, Bernard Berenson, Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell, Graham Greene, Anaîs Nin, Gore Vidal, Carl Sandburg, and Jessamyn West. Remembrance illuminates the most elusive aspect of Ray Bradbury’s wide-ranging writing passions—the correspondence he sent and received throughout his long life, each letter originally intended for an audience of one.

The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton

John C. Tibbetts
The Dark Side of G K Chesterton Book PDF

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476684970

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The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton by John C. Tibbetts Pdf

This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. "Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's use of the theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.

The Bradbury Chronicles

Sam Weller
The Bradbury Chronicles Book PDF

Author : Sam Weller
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062245069

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The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller Pdf

“For Bradbury fans, THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES is essential. . . . [A]n engaging, often fascinating tale.” — New York Times Book Review “A fascinating look at a man’s work -- and the incredible evolution of an alien subgenre.” — Chicago Tribune “A highly readable story . . . informative, enjoyable, and inspiring.” — School Library Journal

Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury
Conversations with Ray Bradbury Book PDF

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578066417

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Conversations with Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Presents a collection of interviews with twentieth-century novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Ray Bradbury, that covers five decades of his life and works.

The Toynbee Convector

Ray Bradbury
The Toynbee Convector Book PDF

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982105150

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The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury Pdf

From “one of science fiction’s grand masters” (Library Journal), a new reissue of Ray Bradbury’s The Toynbee Convector: a collection of twenty-two stories, including the continuing saga of H.G. Well’s time traveler and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy. The world’s only time traveler finally reveals his secret. An old man’s memory of World War I conjures ghostly parachutists. An Egyptian mummy turns up in an Illinois cornfield. A lonely Martian prepares to face his doom. From the iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, The Toynbee Convector is a true cause for celebration. The twenty-two classic tales in this special Ray Bradbury collection begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in common thoughts and memories, and then take off into the farthest reaches of the imagination. “The fiction creates the truth in this lovely exercise in utopian dreaming” (Publishers Weekly)—stunning stories that could only come from the brilliant mind of Ray Bradbury.

Riding Like the Wind

IRIS JAMAHL. DUNKLE
Riding Like the Wind Book PDF

Author : IRIS JAMAHL. DUNKLE
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520395442

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Riding Like the Wind by IRIS JAMAHL. DUNKLE Pdf

This saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature. In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing narrative in the nation's collective imagination of the era. But it also stopped the publication of another important novel, silencing a gifted writer who was more intimately connected to the true experiences of Dust Bowl migrants. In Riding Like the Wind, renowned biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. Dunkle follows Babb from her impoverished childhood in eastern Colorado to California. There, she befriended the era's literati, including Ray Bradbury and Ralph Ellison; entered into an illegal marriage; and was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that Steinbeck relied on to write his novel. But this is not merely a saga of literary usurping; on her own merits, Babb's impact was profound. Her life and work feature heavily in Ken Burns's award-winning documentary The Dust Bowl and inspired Kristin Hannah in her bestseller The Four Winds. Riding Like the Wind reminds us with fresh awareness that the stories we know--and who tells them--can change the way we remember history.