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Bradbury Beyond Apollo

Name: Bradbury Beyond Apollo
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
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By Jonathan R. Eller
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Release Date: September 13, 2020
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
Weight: 800 g
Pages: 336

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Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age'by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for generations of new fans.

Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him into a wider range of nonfiction writing and public lectures, the diminishing time that remained for creative pursuits went toward Hollywood productions like the award-winning series Ray Bradbury Theater. Bradbury developed the Spaceship Earth narration at Disney's EPCOT Center; appeared everywhere from public television to NASA events to comic conventions; published poetry; and mined past triumphs for stage productions that enjoyed mixed success. Distracted from storytelling as he became more famous, Bradbury nonetheless published innovative experiments in autobiography masked as detective novels, the well-received fantasy The Halloween Tree and the masterful time travel story ""The Toynbee Convector."" Yet his embrace of celebrity was often at odds with his passion for writing, and the resulting tension continuously pulled at his sense of self.

The revelatory conclusion to the acclaimed three-part biography, Bradbury Beyond Apollo tells the story of an inexhaustible creative force seeking new frontiers.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Inherited Wish
1. Prometheus Bound
2. The Darkness Between the Stars
3. A Teller of Tales
4. The Prisoner of Gravity
5. Witness and Celebrate
6. The Sleep of Reason
7. The Inherited Wish
8. Long After Midnight
9. A Mailbox on Mars
Part II. Beyond Eden
10. The God in Science Fiction
11. Infinite Worlds
12. Abandon in Place
13. Beyond Eden
14. Robot Museums
15. The Great Shout of the Universe
16. A Eureka Year
17. One-Way Ticket Man
Part III. 1984 Will Not Arrive
18. My Name Is Darka
19. A Most Favorite Subject
20. Memories of Murder
21. 1984 Will Not Arrive
22. Death Is a Lonely Business
23. A Poet's Heart
24. Forms of Things Unknown
25. Time Flies
26. Beyond the Iron Curtain
Part IV. Graveyard for Lunatics
27. A Graveyard for Lunatics
28. Disputed Passage
29. Green Shadows, White Whale
30. The ABCs of Science Fiction
31. An American Icon
32. Harvest Time
33. A Promise of Eternity
34. Séances and Ghosts
35. An Evening on Mars
Part V. Closing the Book
36. Make Haste to Livea
37. Messages in a Bottle
38. The Fire Within
39. A Child's Imagination
40. Farewell Summer
41. Samurai Kabuki
42. Nothing Has to Diea
43. Visions of Mars
44. Remembrance
45. Closing the Book
Notes
Index

"As with his earlier volumes, Eller makes meticulous use of his detailed research and extraordinary access to materials such as correspondence, manuscripts, and notebooks. The focus here is less on how Bradbury became a major writer, or how he parlayed his early success, than on his status as what Eller quite defensibly calls an American icon."--Gary K. Wolfe, author of Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature

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