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In case you're not aware of it, Jon Eller's new book BECOMING RAY BRADBURY is published in a few days (1 August). I've reviewed it for my website, here.


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Does anyone know if this books has actually been released? Amazon.com still shows it as not released.
 
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Amazon showing August 22, 2011 release date.

Phil: Has this been released?
 
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Amazon showing August 22, 2011 release date.

Hmmm... that date sounds familiar.


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I put in a pre-order. Turns out I'm an optimist, after all! Red Face)
 
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Just got an email from Amazon that my copy of Becoming Bradbury shipped. Can't wait!!
 
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Just received my copy today. It looks fantastic! Just browsing through it I've learned a lot about the development of Ray's writing and where his style fit in to the time, and excerpts from critics (reviewers, not haters) of his writing from the very beginning. Excellent resource and the writing, though scholarly, is quite readable!

Strongly recommend this!
 
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...Excellent resource and the writing, though scholarly, is quite readable!

Strongly recommend this!


Hear hear!

I reviewed it a couple of weeks ago. My review is here.


- Phil

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And here is a review in the Washington Post by Pulitzer winner Michael Dirda:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...IQAuTgzLJ_story.html


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You know what you are, Mr. Bradbury? ... You are a poet! -- Aldous Huxley
 
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And here is a review in the Washington Post by Pulitzer winner Michael Dirda...


What a terrific review. (That's why Dirda has a Pulitzer and I don't!) Every review I've seen so far has been positive. Jon seems to have got it absolutely right with this one.


- Phil

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Here is a link to an article publihsed today from the Indiana University News Center about the new release Becoming Ray Bradbury by Jonathan R. Eller:

http://newscenter.iupui.edu/52...Book-on-Ray-Bradbury
 
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L: Good post. One gets a keen sense of the publication's tone and themes from the article. As I now finish my second reading of GSWW, it will be interesting to get Mr. Eller's text and to hear of the many anecdotes that delivered Mr. B to the cliff, how he jumped off and then made his wings on the way down! A true Zen in the Art Writing narration, I am sure!
 
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Yes.
Here is another (cool), article from NEW SCIENTIST titled HOW SCIENCE SHAPED THE STORIES OF RAY BRADBURY by Jonathan R. Eller:
http://www.newscientist.com/bl...of-ray-bradbury.html
 
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Quite interesting to consider where would we be today if RB's energies had been scientific and technological vs. artist and metaphoric. No doubt, we could have actually been reading stories of life in Alpha Centauri as we sipped exquisite wine on a majestic ridge of an ancient Martian canal.

Not that we have missed anything because of the road he ventured upon. Instead, we are truly all better off in so many ways. There would not have been an RB Board on which to share his seventy years of metaphors and to ponder his unparalleled images.

This speaks of Mr. B:
http://poetrypages.lemon8.nl/l...ken/roadnottaken.htm
 
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...Here is another (cool), article from NEW SCIENTIST...


Another good find, Linnl! Bradbury is often listed among UNscientific SF writers, but this article makes it clear that he is as well read in scientific topics are he is in the arts, and that even his non-SF stories took some basis from science.


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