by Ray Bradbury
“Free Pass at Heaven’s Gate” first appeared in You Are Here, Jerde Partnership, 1999; copyright © 1999 by Ray Bradbury.
“G.B.S.: Refurbishing the Tin Woodman: Science Fiction with Heart, a Brain, and the Nerve!” first appeared in Shaw and Science Fiction, volume 17, Penn State University Press, 1997; copyright © 1997 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Beautiful Bad Weather” first appeared in the May/June 2000 issue of National Geographic Traveler; copyright © 2000 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Affluence of Despair: America Through the Looking Glass” first appeared in the April 3, 1998, issue of the Wall Street Journal as “The Affluence of Despair”; copyright © 1998 by Ray Bradbury.
“Any Friend of Trains Is a Friend of Mine” first appeared in the August 2, 1968, issue of Life; copyright © 1968 by Ray Bradbury.
“Beyond 1984” first appeared in the January 1979 issue of Playboy; copyright © 1979 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Ardent Blasphemers” first appeared in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Bantam Books, 1962; copyright © 1962 by Ray Bradbury.
“That Future with a Funny Name” first appeared in The Hospitality and Leisure Architecture of Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo, Rock-point Publishers, 1995; copyright © 1995 by Ray Bradbury.
“Hysteria, Goddess of Flight, or On Takeoff, Do Not Run Up and Down the Aisles Screaming” first appeared in the January 1993 issue of American Way as “The Day of the Birdman”; copyright © 1993 by Ray Bradbury.
“Time to Explore Again: Where is the Madman Who’ll Take Us to Mars?” first appeared in the November 21, 2004, issue of the Wall Street Journal; copyright © 2004 by Ray Bradbury.
“Paris: Always Destroyed, Always Triumphant” first appeared in the July 1986 issue of Le Nouvel Observateur as “Et les Handicaps on Archemont Sur le Vent”; copyright © 1986 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Sixty-Minute Louvre: Paris by Stopwatch” first appeared in the November 1993 issue of Telerama as “Le Louvre en 60 Minutes Chrono”; copyright © 1993 by Ray Bradbury.
“L.A., Outta the Way and Let Us Happen!” first appeared in Imagining Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times Books, 2000; copyright © 2000 by Ray Bradbury.
“L.A., We Are the World!: A New-Millennium Revolution” first appeared in the January/February 1989 issue of Westways as “Celluloid City”; copyright © 1989 by Ray Bradbury.
PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED
“My Demon, Not Afraid of Unhappiness”
“Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog’s Butterfly”
“The Whale, the Whim, and I”
“Mouser”
“Lord Russell and the Pipsqueak”
“A Milestone at Milestone’s: Bonderchuk Remembered”
“The Hunchback, the Phantom, the Mummy, and Me”
“I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore (The New Millennium, That Is)”
“The Rabbit Hole Lost and Found Book Shoppe”
“Queen of Angels, Not Quite Ready for Her Close-Up”
“L.A., How Do I Love Thee?”
“Disneyland, or Disney’s Demon for Happiness”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of more than three dozen books, RAY BRADBURY is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. He has written for the theater and cinema, and has been nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television’s Ray Bradbury Theater and won an Emmy for his Teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He lives in Los Angeles.
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PRAISE FOR RAY BRADBURY & BRADBURY SPEAKS
“Wonderful.... It is fascinating to read about the various ways Bradbury got his inspiration for his stories and novels.... This book is vintage Bradbury.”
—Deseret News
“A giant.... One of the country’s most popular and prolific authors.”
—Los Angeles Times
“The grand master’s many fans will delight in behind-the-scenes stories.... Whether Bradbury is talking about cross-country train trips or manned flight to Mars, his enthusiasm remains as contagious as ever.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Time has not dimmed his eloquent and elegant voice or his lively imagination that asks ‘what if’ and then answers.”
—San Antonio Express-News
“Bradbury is an authentic original.”
—Time
“Out of the plainest of words he creates images and moods that readers seem to carry with them forever.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation.”
—New York Times
“Ray Bradbury is an old-fashioned romantic who’s capable of imagining a dystopic future. He can evoke nostalgia for a mythic, golden past or raise goosebumps with tales of horror.”
—Chicago Tribune
“A preeminent storyteller.... An icon in American literature.”
—Virginian Pilot
“Bradbury has a style all his own, much imitated but never matched.... After writing for more than fifty years, Bradbury has become more than pretty good at it. He has become a master.”
—The Oregonian
“Some writers have a presence so pervasive that we take them wholly for granted; they’re the floor we walk on.... Ray Bradbury has accomplished what very few artists do. With his visions of possible futures and edgy presents, he has shown us a way out of the trap of ourselves, shown us how we can break the momentum of the past, of our habits and willful ignorance. He has not only transformed science fiction, he has changed us.”
—Boston Sunday Globe
ALSO BY RAY BRADBURY
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines
Bradbury Stories
The Cat’s Pajamas
Dandelion Wine
Dark Carnival
Death Is a Lonely Business
Driving Blind
Fahrenheit 451
From the Dust Returned
The Golden Apples of the Sun
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Green Shadows, White Whale
The Halloween Tree
I Sing the Body Electric!
The Illustrated Man
Let’s All Kill Constance
Long After Midnight
The Machineries of Joy
The Martian Chronicles
A Medicine for Melancholy
The October Country
One More for the Road
Quicker Than the Eye
R Is for Rocket
S Is for Space
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
The Toynbee Convector
When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Witness and Celebrate
Yestermorrow
Zen in the Art of Writing
COPYRIGHT
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2005 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
BRADBURY SPEAKS. Copyright © 2005 by Ray Bradbury. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2006.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Bradbury, Ray.
Bradbury speaks : too soon from the cave,
too far from the stars / Ray Bradbury.—1st ed.
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sp; p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-058568-4 (alk. paper)
1. Title: Too soon from the cave, too far from the stars. II. Title.
PS3503.R167B73 2005
813'.54—dc22
2005041489
ISBN-10: 0-06-058569-2 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-058569-3 (pbk.)
Epub Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN: 9780062242112
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