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Informationen zum Autor In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine , and Something Wicked This Way Comes . An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors. Zusammenfassung From an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape come two bewitching novellas that have never before appeared in print—each distinctly different, yet uniquely Bradbury—demonstrating the breathtaking range of the master's talent and the irrepressible vitality of his mind, spirit, and heart. In Somewhere a Band Is Playing , a writer is drawn by poetry and dreams to tiny Summerton, Arizona, a community hidden in plain view, where the residents, miraculously, never seem to age. Enchanted by its powerful rural magic—and by a beautiful, enigmatic lady—the writer sets out to uncover Summerton's mysteries before the inevitable arrival of a ruthless and soulless destruction. With Leviathan '99 , the author who once colonized Mars returns to the cosmos to brilliantly reimagine Herman Melville's classic masterwork of obsession and the sea, transforming a great whale into a massive, worlds-devouring comet. In the year 2099, fledgling astronaut Ishmael Hunnicut Jones boards the Cetus 7 , placing his fate in the hands of a relentless madman who is blindly chasing the celestial monster's tail. Rich in poetry, wonder, and truth—brimming with imagination, intelligence, and delectable sly humor—here is proof positive that the words and stories of the inimitable Bradbury will live on . . . Now and Forever . ...
