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Long After Midnight & The Halloween Tree
Bradbury's imaginative field is boundless. In this collection of 23 stories he carries us from the cozy familiarity of small-town America to the frozen desert and double moon that has been a part of our landscapes since THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Characters range from the ordinary--a rookie cop, an unhappy wife on vacation in Mexico, an old parish priest hearing confession to the extraordinary--the parrot to whom Hemingway confides the plot of his greatest but unwritten novel and a woman who hangs out a sign in New York City reading "Melissa Toad, Witch." "Fantastic, chillingly suspenseful or hauntingly nostalgic, each of these stories has that aura of the expected combined with the special ring of absolute rightness that is brilliantly, uniquely, Bradbury." (Publisher's Source)
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First published August 1, 1990
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Ray Bradbury
2,560 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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July 2, 2024
i really wish it was easier to review individual stories on this site.
this is for the story 'long after midnight' only.
strange ending. weird sharp turn it took there.
one character had a very good point, one that i think i've heard paul bloom make, in that people who work in medicine have to be non-empathetic to a large extent. if they weren't, then they'd constantly be driven by their biases. lots of them probably are. they probably give preferential treatment to women over men, for eg, since women are always viewed more sympathetically.
anyway, decent story. i like how all the stories at the end of this collection are super-short. a nice relief to be able to read something in 10 minutes or whatever.
this is for the story 'long after midnight' only.
strange ending. weird sharp turn it took there.
one character had a very good point, one that i think i've heard paul bloom make, in that people who work in medicine have to be non-empathetic to a large extent. if they weren't, then they'd constantly be driven by their biases. lots of them probably are. they probably give preferential treatment to women over men, for eg, since women are always viewed more sympathetically.
anyway, decent story. i like how all the stories at the end of this collection are super-short. a nice relief to be able to read something in 10 minutes or whatever.
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