“At last—a book you can judge by its cover.... Once of his most attractive and satisfying works in quite some time.”
Kirkus Reviews (*Starred Review*)
“An episodic, memorable book … Bradbury spins a gossamer tapestry with his language.”
Omaha World-Herald
“Time has not dimmed Bradbury’s eloquent and elegant voice or his lively imagination that asks ‘what if’ and then answers.”
San Antonio Express-News
“Ray Bradbury’s still in his prime.... A writer whose fantasies are attuned to that perfect season between childlike wonder and the age of reason … whose prose often walks up to the edge of a majestic purple mountain range, or straddles a fence separating lush fields of prairie grass from the trampled lawns of suburbia.... Instead of resting on his laurels, Bradbury is riding his third wind into a creative vortex.... Like the members of his Family, Bradbury’s talents are immortal.”
Denver Post
Other Books by Ray Bradbury
Ahmed & Oblivion Machines
Dandelion Wine
Dark Carnival
Death Is a Lonely Business
Driving Blind
Fahrenheit 451
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
Journey to Far Metaphor
Kaleidoscope
The Martian Chronicles
The Machineries of Joy
A Medicine for Melancholy
The October Country
One Timeless Spring
Quicker Than the Eye
R Is for Rocket
The Stories of Ray Bradbury
S Is for Space
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Toynbee Convector
When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Yestermorrow
Zen in the Art of Writing
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entire coincidental.
Portions of this book have previously appeared as follows:
“The Traveler,” first published in Weird Tales, December 1945; © 1945 by Weird Tales, renewed in 1972 by Ray Bradbury.
“Homecoming,” first published in Mademoiselle, October 1946; © 1946 by Mademoiselle, renewed in 1974 by Ray Bradbury.
“Uncle Einar,” first published in Dark Carnival (Arkham House, 1947); © 1947, renewed 1975 by Ray Bradbury.
“The April Witch” (appearing here as “The Wandering Witch”), first published in The Saturday Evening Post, April 4,1952, in a slightly different form; © 1952 by the Curtis Publishing Co., renewed 1980 by Ray Bradbury.
“On the Orient North,” first published in The Toynbee Convector (Knopf, 1988); © 1988 by Ray Bradbury.
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