Uncle Einar

by Ray Bradbury

Uncle Einar has a special gift, but he has to hide it from the world. That is, until he finds a unique way to show it....

Genres: Short Stories, Fantasy

9 pages, Paperback

About the author

Ray 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".

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good story. Drew me in, even though historical fantasy isn’t my favorite. Loving Bradbury at the moment!

[Brooksie Fontaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

A charming story, and very laid back compared to the other frightful tales in Bradbury's October Country.

Beautifully written, with prose that unfurls like an autumnal wind. Bradbury's fascination with kites - at least visually - makes another appearance in his famous Halloween Tree.

[Finlay O'Riordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple but good. A winged man loses his power of flight, and over the years, finds himself settling down and eventually finding a way, through his children, to both regain his supernatural ability but also apply it in a completely conventional way.

[Forked Radish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don't fly buzzed.

[mark propp · Rating 2 out of 5]

not liking these bradbury stories much so far, but i expect they'll get better.

[Aryanna Tunstall · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am so relieved that the man turned out to be a great father as I thought he was going to abandon his wife and children in the end.

[Fíonn Kirwan · Rating 3 out of 5]

7 out of 10