Author: Ray Bradbury
Narrator: Jim Frangione
Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/27/2018
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.
Bradbury siempre serça mi lugar seguro, aunque deba leer tres capítulos sobre sus visiones urbanísticas (entiéndase que no fueron mis favoritos), al final temino por disfrutar de sus ideas, sus anécdotas y, ene ste caso, de un par de magníficos ensayos sobre su entendimiento de la ciencia ficción. L......more
It was interesting... but all in all it made me a bit sad as far as future visions go. So much of it seemed to be concentrated on making sure people are good consumers who, when they don't work, still contribute to the economy by shopping and eating out and bei g always, always publically entertaine......more
Many of the essays in this collection are about urban design, mainly written in the 70s and 80s. Bradbury is lobbying readers to recreate old, Midwestern town centers in new towns and in different districts of large cities. He writes of promenading, and visiting bookstores and tiny movie theaters, a......more
For anyone who has read Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, it is clear that he had a love of small towns. He cared very deeply about place and rootedness. In this collection of essays, the works that seemed to be the most passionate and exciting were Bradbury's ideas on urban design. Bring back the band......more
Ray Bradbury demostro ser un buen novelista y un buen cuentista, es decir, es muy respetado en el campo de la ficcion. Y cunado leo esto, no puedo decir lo mismo como ensayista, ni periodista. Ninguna de estas notas que salieron en revistas y aca son compiladas merecen estar en formato de libro. Por......more