Quicker Than the Eye

Name: Quicker Than the Eye
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 9781501981739

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/04/2019

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant centuries; joining an ancient couple in their wild assassination games; celebrating life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades and has enchanted millions of readers the world over.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dean on January 28, 2019

This is a great collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury!!! I love them all.. Bradbury is indeed the master of short stories, a literary magician per excellense.. He creates worlds full of life out of ordinary peoples, events, circumstances and items!!! And yes, in his books he also loves and celebra......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on July 12, 2024

Quicker Than the Eye is a collection of his own stories by that master wordsmith, weaving his magical tales, the writer Ray Bradbury. In it he includes 11 stories which had been published in various American magazines between 1994 and 1996, and 10 stories written especially for the anthology. Some I......more

Goodreads review by TK421 on February 21, 2011

I have been a devoted Bradbury fan since I first read FARENHEIT 451 in high school. Some say he is over the top; I say they are too closed in their thinking. Granted, Bradbury is an acquired taste. His word choice is unique, confounding, and even sometimes bizarre. But after reading one of stories,......more

Goodreads review by DrWarthrop on January 26, 2018

Eine tolle, emotionale und spannende Geschichtensammlung. Die abwechslungsreiche Sprache und ungewöhnlichen Situationen verleihen dem Buch seinen Charme und jeder Geschichte ihre eigene Daseinsberechtigung. Viele der Geschichten drehen sich um Literatur oder die Liebe dazu, wofür eine gewisse Affini......more

Goodreads review by Liesa on December 16, 2017

Passend zur herbstlichen Jahreszeit, die ja immer mit Horror und Grusel verbunden wird, habe ich mich an einen Band mit Erzählungen von Ray Bradbury herangewagt, der zwar keinen Horror versprach, aber mysteriöse und magische Geschichten enthalten sollte. Da solch geheimnisvolle und unerklärliche Ele......more