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Bradbury speaks : too soon from the cave, too far from the stars

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, ©2005.
Edition/Format:  Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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He is an American treasure; a clear-eyed fantasist without peer; a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. He has a moon crater named after him and a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. He has been honored with prizes galore. He has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, invent, believe, and fly. Collected between these covers are memories, ruminations, opinions,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Ray Bradbury; Ray Bradbury
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 0060585684 9780060585686
OCLC Number: 57531443
Description: xi, 243 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: About writing --
My demon, not afraid of happiness (undated) --
Vin revivere, or a vintage revisited (1991) --
How something wicked came (1996) --
Lincoln's doctor's dog's butterfly (undated) --
The whale, the whim, and I (undated) --
All's well that end's well ... or, unhappily ever after (2003) --
Remembrance of books past (2004) --
About science fiction --
Predicting the past, remembering the future (2001) --
Mars: too soon from the cave, too far from the stars (2000) --
Earthrise and its faces (1999) --
Falling upward, or walking backward to the future (1999) --
Beyond Giverny (1994) --
About people --
Mouser (undated) --
Lord Russell and the pipsqueak (undated) --
More, much more, by Corwin (1999) --
Because of the wonderful things he does (1999) --
A milestone at milestone's: Bonderchuk remembered (undated) --
Free pass at Heaven's gate (1999) --
GBS: refurbishing the tin woodman: science fiction with a heart, a brain, and the nerve! (1997) --
About life --
The beautiful bad weather (2000) --
The affluence of despair: America through the looking glass (1998) --
The hunchback, the phantom, the mummy, and me (undated) --
Any friend of trains is a friend of mine (1968) --
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore! (the new millennium, that is) (undated) --
The rabbit hole lost and found book shoppe (undated) --
Beyond 1984 (1979) --
The ardent blasphemers (1962) --
That future with a funny name (1995) --
Hysteria, goddess of flight, or on takeoff, do not run up and down the aisles screaming (1993) --
Time to explore again: where is the madman who'll take us to Mars? (2004) --
About Paris --
Paris: always destroyed, always triumphant (1986) --
The sixty-minute Louvre: Paris by stopwatch (1993) --
About Los Angeles --
Queen of angels, not quite ready for her close-up (undated) --
L.A., how do I love thee? (undated) --
L.A., outta the way and let us happen! (2000) --
L.A., we are the world!: a new-millennium revelation (1989) --
Disneyland, or Disney's demon for happiness (undated).
Other Titles: Too soon from the cave, too far from the stars
Responsibility: Ray Bradbury.

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A highly personal, deeply felt collection of non-fiction essays that offers an intimate look into one of the most fertile and dazzling imaginations of the modern age.  Read more...

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"Both insightful and playful . . . When Bradbury speaks, we should listen."--Library Journal

 
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by dougspalding (WorldCat user published 2007-01-18) Very Good Permalink
Bradbury is one of my favorite authors. .. Too Soon from the Cave was an interesting departure from more other books I have read Mr. Bradbury. Imagine Bradbury's very poetic prose infused with an almost conversational tone that the great author uses to casually discuss with his readers his muses, love...
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