On Stage

by Ray Bradbury

First Edition, First Printing trade paperback in Near Fine condition

Genres: Science Fiction, Plays

376 pages, Paperback

First published November 27, 1991

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

[David Allen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Collecting three earlier books of his plays, this is useful, but unnecessary except to the devoted, who may be intrigued by how Bradbury reshapes 10 of his stories into play form. The plays, of course, lose the lyricism of his narratives. The Irish plays have a one-dimensional charm, Pillar of Fire is incomprehensible, Foghorn a mistake. The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, however, is a triumph.