Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books
Indlæser... Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99 (udgave 2007)af Ray Bradbury (Forfatter)
Work InformationNow and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99 af Ray Bradbury
Ingen Indlæser...
Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Not a big Sci-Fi reader, if this falls into that category. Have read a little Bradbury. And now I remember why it was only a little. Not fond of his style. ( ) Two novellas, published late in Bradbury's life, having gestated over decades. Somewhere a Band is Playing Beautiful. A journalist sniffs a story and jumps off a train into a small town in Arizona, forgotten by the world. A story only Bradbury could make work ensues. As an aside, in the Introduction, we learn that the inspiritaion for Nef in this story (and obviously for the movie star in Death is a Lonely Business) was none other than Katherine Hepburn. Well, it was obvious that there was a real world inspiration for those characters but exactly which leading lady from the Hollywood Age of Elegance was not easily guessed. Leviathan '99 Bradbury went to Ireland when he wrote the screenplay for the film Moby Dick. The experience stuck with him, as his many Irish stories testify, but apparently the White Whale and Ahab stuck with him, too, since he wrote a radio play SF adaptation of the book (broadcast by the BBC), too and eventually that evolved into this novella, which is - bonkers. There's a long tradition of these literary adaptations, of course, even just within SF, perhaps most famously, The Forbidden Planet being a take on Shakespeare's The Tempest. But despite being widely considered an SF writer, Bradbury for the most part stood apart from the mainstream development of the genre, not being really all that interested in science. And so if you go into this expecting a competent space opera, you will be very disappointed. Instead, it is necessary to ignore everything technical, which may as well be magic, and focus on this brief (unlike the voluminous original) examination of self-destructive obsession with it's weird telepathic alien "Queequeg" and blind "Ahab." Ahora y siempre consta de dos novelas cortas de larga gestación, para fans de las imágenes más místicas tatuadas en El hombre ilustrado del maestro Ray Bradbury. En la primera de ellas, En algún lugar toca una banda..., un periodista portador de una noticia terrible salta de un tren en marcha en un pueblecito que esconde secretos maravillosos e imposibles. En la segunda, Leviatán 99, la tripulación de una nave estelar sigue a su capitán, ciego y loco, en su búsqueda por el espacio profundo para enfrentarse al destino, la eternidad e incluso a Dios. Ahora y siempre es la obra de un artista incomparable cuyas historias han dado forma al paisaje literario norteamericano. Dos fascinantes novelas cortas (cada una de ellas única y diferente, pero puro Bradbury) que demuestran su sorprendente talento y la incontenible vitalidad de la mente, el espíritu y el corazón de este destacado narrador estadounidense. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Indeholdt i
Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsIngenPopulære omslag
Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
Er det dig?Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter. |