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Dr. Rearick's Comments: I began reading science fiction consistently when I was still in grade school. I can remember going to book club sponsored by the school library and picking up James Blish's first set of adaptations of Star Trek. Bradbury was already an established name by that time. In fact a friend of mine loaned me some of his Bradbury paperbacks (which I am ashamed to admit are still on my bookshelves).. Yet, I distinctly remember not liking his work at all. It bothered me, disturbed me. I was far more comfortable with Asimove and Clarke's works--both of whom were actually directly involved with science. Their stories left me with a feeling of completeness and comfort. Bradbury left me feeling unsettled.

However, now that I am older I have come to the opinion that there is no greater artist working in the science fiction genre. The unsettled feeling he left me with as a child is what I now look for because it suggests that the writer has challenged a bit of my assumed reality and challened it enought that I need to rethink some part of my world view.

Furthermore, Bradbury's prose is haunting and beautiful. His technical ability to describe so that both one's mind and emotions are engaged are far superior than either Asimov, Clarke or other authros in the genre.

Finally as a bibliophile I relish that he is a true lover of books. Ironically I recently read, but can't find the blip in the Columbus Dispatch, that at a speaking engagement to scientists recently he announced that he hated the web. "How can you smell and touch a book when it is on a screen?" he asked "and what's the big deal about being able to reach people all over the world? Most of them are jerks!" Sounds like he's becoming a curmudgeon!  But I still love his work, and no one has done a better job of defending Halloween for me than him.

His life:

For a full biography follow this link

Here's an interesting little "blip" by Bradbury about "political correctness."

Works:

Classic Stories I

Classic Stories II

Dandelion Wine

Amazon.com ordering info, cover art, etc for paperback and Hardcover

February 1975, Random House Hardcover ISBN:0-394-49605-1

May 1990, Bantam Books Mass Market Paperback ISBN:0-553-27753-7

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Made into a film
February 1995, Ballantine Books ISBN:0-345-34296-8
Check out http://www.luc.edu/libraries/banned/

The Halloween Tree

Made into an animated TV Special

Made into a film. Cover art

The Last Good Kiss 1984
 

• The Last Train to Limbo sh.sts.

• Long After Midnight 1976, short stories

The Machineries of Joy

The Martian Chronicles

short stories

aka The Silver Locusts (UK)

CD-ROM

more info on CD-ROM Study guide, Contents,

The October Country Short stories

1955, hardbound edition
April 1956, Ballantine paperback
Contents

S Is For Space

The Silver Locusts (UK title for The Martian Chronicles)

The Small Assassin sh.sts.

Something Wicked This Way Comes Made into a film
A word document version of the play is on our Mainframe.

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The Tonybee Convector 

Listing of Short Stories
 
• "The Blue Bottle"  1950

• "Bright Phoenix" sh.st. 1963 F&SF

• "The Chicago Abyss" sh.st. 1964, The Machineries of Joy, S & S

• "Christus Apollo" cantata 1969, I Sing the Body Electric!

• "Cistern" (c) 1947 by Street & Smith Publications 1955 in The October Country

• "Come Into My Cellar" sh.st. 1962 Galaxy

• "Homecoming" (c) 1946 by Street & Smith Publications 1955 in The October Country

• "A Little Journey" sh.st. 1951, World Eds.

• "The Man Upstairs" (c) 1947 by Harper & Brothers 1955 in The October Country

• "Mars is Heaven" sh.st. 1948, Love Romances Publ. Co.

• "The Next in Line" sh.st. Dark Carnival

• "Of What is Past or Passing, or to Come" poem

• "The Sound of Thunder"

• "The Vacation" sh.st. Playboy

• "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse" (c) 1954 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation 1955, in The October Country

• "The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone" (c) 1954 by Street & Smith Publications  1955 in The October Country

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