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В 2000 г. Рэю Брэдбери исполнилось 80 лет, к этой знаменательной дате издательство опубликовало сборник рассказов, в который вошли произведения разных лет, объединенные темой человека в космосе.
432 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2000
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Ray Bradbury
2,561 books25.3k followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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May 1, 2014
loving this series
August 14, 2019
If only such a world existed
August 21, 2020
“Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye. Chatterton sat stunned on the side of the hill. The other men sat around him, exhausted and laughing. He would not look at them, he would not look at the sky, he would only feel of the earth, and his arms and his legs and his body, tightening in on himself.”
I think this may be one of Bradbury’s better writing (that I’ve read so far anyways).
It was one of those stories where you expect the worst and the author withhold it from you. But the tension is there. It is always there.
The only thing wrong with this story was the bland bias of the author. But what can you do?
“...like very young men in the presence of great beauty, of a fine and famous woman...”
“...a sudden high drift of women's laughter from some ivy-shaded porch...”
“It's a sea of green golf links, thought Forester, which goes on forever. Putting greens, driving greens, you could walk ten thousand...”
“If ever a planet was a woman, this one is."
“A versatile world," said Koestler dryly. "A woman who'll do anything to please her guests,”
“There, in the shallows, were the women who would make fine wives, and raise beautiful children.”
“She's the woman scorned. She let us go, yes, but we can never come back...”
UGH.
Of course it skips the logical conundrum that if two people disagree who will the planet side with?
It also doesn’t bother with the implication that the planet is “providing” women to these men. Meaning that this paradise planet may only be paradise to one gender.
But whatever, right? Paradise Planet! What a neat idea!
I think this may be one of Bradbury’s better writing (that I’ve read so far anyways).
It was one of those stories where you expect the worst and the author withhold it from you. But the tension is there. It is always there.
The only thing wrong with this story was the bland bias of the author. But what can you do?
“...like very young men in the presence of great beauty, of a fine and famous woman...”
“...a sudden high drift of women's laughter from some ivy-shaded porch...”
“It's a sea of green golf links, thought Forester, which goes on forever. Putting greens, driving greens, you could walk ten thousand...”
“If ever a planet was a woman, this one is."
“A versatile world," said Koestler dryly. "A woman who'll do anything to please her guests,”
“There, in the shallows, were the women who would make fine wives, and raise beautiful children.”
“She's the woman scorned. She let us go, yes, but we can never come back...”
UGH.
Of course it skips the logical conundrum that if two people disagree who will the planet side with?
It also doesn’t bother with the implication that the planet is “providing” women to these men. Meaning that this paradise planet may only be paradise to one gender.
But whatever, right? Paradise Planet! What a neat idea!
October 3, 2022
Another extremely effective story by Bradbury about a planet that seems to perfection and how various men react to a supposed paradise.
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