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Bradbury speaks : too soon from the cave, too far from the stars / Ray Bradbury.

by Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.

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New York : William Morrow, c2005.

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.

0060585684 (alk. paper)

xi, 243 p. ; 24 cm.

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).

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, prophecies, and philosophies from one of the most influential and admired writers of our time: boyhood experiences that molded the man, as well as his eye-opening, sometimes hilarious true adventures in the realm of the famous and adored; insightful, piquant reflections on humankind's past and future, and where we stand in the universe today; provocative and deeply affecting musings on the present state of art and the unparalleled glory of creation.--From publisher description.

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