Amazon.com just sent me an email announcing a new book The Dragon Ate His Tail by Ray. You can get a copy for $10.17 discounted from $14.95.

Just spoke with Ray and he doesn't know anything about it. He asked me to check into it and see what I could find out. He thought perhaps it might be a book about him, but certainly not by him.

Yet, they show a cover and below it is the name Ray Bradbury. The cover looks like the art work of a six-year old with the number 451 worked into what looks like the roof of a house and some kind of creature (a dragon?) inside it. Does anybody else know about this?

I did some checking and called Donn Albright and he said that The Dragon Ate His Tail is a Chap Book that he and Ray have put together compiled of several different items. He figured that Ray just forgot about it.

I just called Ray back and he thanked me for finding out about it as he had simply forgotten that it was coming out with all of the other acitivities that he has been involved with.

The front cover is illustrated by Ray with a 451 at the top in a triangle and a drawing of a mechanical hound below.

Donn took umbrage when I said that it looked like it was drawn by a six-year-old. And I certainly didn't mention that to Ray when I spoke with him.

It looks like Amazon have the title wrong: they have it listed as The Dragon Ate His Tail, but if you look carefully at the cover illustration you will see it is The Dragon WHO Ate His Tail!

The Amazon ordering page is here; the cover image is here.

The publishers, Gauntlet Press, have a little bit of information on the content of the chapbook on their page for Match to Flame, the forthcoming book about the genesis of Fahrenheit 451.

I ordered and paid for a limited edition of ~Farewell Summer~ months ago from Subterranean Press. As of this writing, No Show! An email some 6 weeks or more ago to them got a reply that slipcases were just then becoming available, and the book would be out to me beginning of the year. Should I hold my breath?

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Originally posted by biplane1:
Donn took umbrage when I said that it looked like it was drawn by a six-year-old. And I certainly didn't mention that to Ray when I spoke with him.

Umbrage is a good word.

It does look like it was drawn by a six-year old; that's one of the great things about Ray's drawings!

superfluous

"Magnanimity!"

All good words, Gentle Folk, all good words!

rapscallion

One of the best, along with scalawag.

that is good, okay hmmm....

I need some word to razzledazzle D.S.

I'll get back with ya.

Doug, I just knew that you would like the word umbrage. Now I have to admit that it appeared to be a bit of a conundrum to Ray when I asked him about the book The Dragon Who Ate His Tail and he, at first, did not recall it.

By the way, Philnic, thanks very much for the supportive information about The Dragon Who Ate His Tail and Match to Flame.

Persnikety.

Sesquipedalian, anyone?

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Originally posted by rocket:
I need some word to razzledazzle D.S.

Razzledazzle is a good word.