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Synopsis
From "one of science fiction’s grand masters", the classic tales in this 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. Stories by the author of "The Martian Chronicles" includes the continuating saga of H.G. Well's time traveller and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines Playboy, Omni, Gallery, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Woman's Day, and Weird * The Toynbee Convector (1984) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Trapdoor (1985) / short story by Ray Bradbury * On the Orient, North [The Elliott Family] (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * One Night in Your Life (1988) ? short story by Ray Bradbury * West of October [The Elliott Family] (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * The Last Circus (1980) / short story by Ray Bradbury * The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair (1987) / short story by Ray Bradbury * I Suppose You Are Wondering Why We Are Here? (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of I Suppose You Are Wondering Why We Are Here 1984) * Lafayette, Farewell (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Banshee [The Irish Stories] (1984) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Promises, Promises (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * The Love Affair (1982) / short story by Ray Bradbury * One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! [The Irish Stories] (1985) / short story by Ray Bradbury * At Midnight, in the Month of June [Green Town] (1954) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned (1984) / short story by Ray Bradbury * By the Numbers! (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of By the Numbers 1984) * A Touch of Petulance (1980) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Long Division (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Come, and Bring Constance! (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Junior (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * The Tombstone (1945) / short story by Ray Bradbury * The Thing at the Top of the Stairs (1988) / short story by Ray Bradbury * Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy (1981) / short story by Ray Bradbury.
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From Publishers Weekly
Bradbury's first collection since the quasi-definitive Stories is a very mixed bag, including, along with the charming and the moving stories, some of the author's weakestfrail conceits feebly decked out in the same stylistic knick-knacks Bradbury has been pulling from his well-used trunk for the past 35 years. Storytelling itself is the theme of a number of these short narratives; Bradbury understands that a primary function of fiction is to act as a guidepost back to the emotional richness of childhood and adolescence. In "On the Orient, North" a ghost, at the point of dissipation, rejuvenates itself by telling scary winter's tales to a group of children. In "Banshee" a screenwriter and a director tell each other disturbing cautionary talesone narrator, to the other's misfortune, is not making it up. The fey souls in "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair" find their relationship cannot withstand a little hard reality. The title story concerns a man who claims to have traveled into the future and declares that there the world's problems have been resolved. He produces documentation of his claims and lives to see the realization of his vision, even though a vision is all it is. The documentation turns out to be fabrications, but the hope it had inspired allows mankind to bring about its own salvation. The fiction creates the truth in this lovely exercise in utopian dreaming. 30,000 first printing; BOMC alternate.
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From Library Journal
An old woman learns what it truly means to believe in ghosts in "On the Orient, North"; another woman discovers a mysterious "Trapdoor" in a house she has occupied for years; and an old man attempts to change his own past in "A Touch of Petulance" in this new collection of 23 stories by one of sf's grand masters. Simplicity and warmth shine through even the weaker stories as the author continues to focus his sights on the elusive human heart. Recommended for sf and fantasy collections. BOMC alternate. JC
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