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The ghosts of forever
Book by Ray Bradbury, Aldo Sessa, Melvin B. Zisfein
130 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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Ray Bradbury
1,365 books25.4k followersRay 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".
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".
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May 20, 2016
Ensayo? Autoayuda? Ciencia-ficción filosófica?
¡Gracias Ray por haber existido!
¡Gracias Ray por haber existido!
March 11, 2012
This book is a large format coffee-table book, featuring text by Ray Bradbury and illustrations and paintings by Argentinian artist Aldo Sessa. There are a handful of Bradbury's poems here, an essay and a short story ("The Messiah"). Each is done in a large font, and is accompanied by a number of Sessa's works, some specific to the piece, others clearly selected from his broader body of previous work.
It's an intriguing idea but for me at least, the resulting product was very mixed. Sometimes the paintings meshed for me with the feeling I received from the poem or story. Other times the written and visual images did not connect at all. This could be due to the fact that I have read most of the Bradbury material before and already have preconceived visualizations that accompany them in my own mind. Or it could simply be that I am indifferent to some of Sessa's visual style, (especially in his acrylic on paper pieces) which includes simple lines, thick borders and a relatively muted color palette.
There were a few paintings that really captured my imagination, including "Serenitatis," "Secret Vision of Antwerp," and "Comet." Each of these has a more organic and photo-realistic quality and they use strong, nearly monochromatic color choices to convey cosmic themes. Beautiful.
It's an intriguing idea but for me at least, the resulting product was very mixed. Sometimes the paintings meshed for me with the feeling I received from the poem or story. Other times the written and visual images did not connect at all. This could be due to the fact that I have read most of the Bradbury material before and already have preconceived visualizations that accompany them in my own mind. Or it could simply be that I am indifferent to some of Sessa's visual style, (especially in his acrylic on paper pieces) which includes simple lines, thick borders and a relatively muted color palette.
There were a few paintings that really captured my imagination, including "Serenitatis," "Secret Vision of Antwerp," and "Comet." Each of these has a more organic and photo-realistic quality and they use strong, nearly monochromatic color choices to convey cosmic themes. Beautiful.
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