fjp451 wrote

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Did the robotics references raise your recognition!?

Yes they did. The youtube posted is impressive, if not kind of scary. Just as scary are humans without a conscience, and perhaps thats partly a take on "Punishment Without Crime."

For any and all interested, here is the next quote:

"But there was no word and the veins did not rest easy in the wrists and the heart was a bellows forever blowing upon a little coal of fear, forever illumining and making it into a cherry light, again, pulse, and again an ingrown light which her inner eyes stared upon with unwanting fascination."

Good luck!

Another line:

"A tiny hole of sunlight from the window-shade lay on his chin and picked out, like the spikes of a music-box cylinder, each little hair on his face."

A final clue/line:

"The Death Festival was gone."

The as yet unproduced screenplay, The Catacombs, based on the story in question is soon to be published by Gauntlet Publications.

Any guesses, wild or contained, are welcome.

A contained guess: The Next in Line?

YES! It's "The Next in Line." Your turn tinkerbell.

Photographer Archie Lieberman

http://www.archielieberman.com/

photographed the mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico in the 1970s. After leaving Mexico he was reminded that Ray Bradbury wrote a story about the mummuies thirty years before. His book The Mummies of Guanajuato features black and white photos of Guanajuato along with Bradbury's story.
A stage adaptation of the story was adapted by Sid Stebel and Charles Rome Smith. And a BBC radio adaptation by Brian Sibley.

Does anyone know if the stage adaptation is published?

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Originally posted by Linnl:
...Does anyone know if the stage adaptation is published?

I've never seen a published adaptation.

Thank you. Apologies for not being specific. I was wondering if the play (or book) had ever been published.

I think I understood the question - and my answer stands! To the best of my knowledge, the only plays based on Bradbury to have been published are his own dramatisations, which are available from Dramatic Publishing (www.dramaticpublishing.com), plus a couple of collections of his plays. THE NEXT IN LINE is not among them.

"My talk with you has helped clarify things. Nobody thought an airplane would ever fly, nobody thought an atom would ever explode, and nobody thinks that there can ever be Peace, but there will be."

At first, I thought "The Toynbee Convector"...but then I decided "A Piece of Wood"!

I wood say that's the correct answer. Over to you, maestro.

OK, left's go for something a little bit more obscure. Name this Bradbury story:

"In a brief second they had felt they were falling. They felt themselves hit the floor many times. Then the machine ceased its crazy antics and stopped at the main floor."

Off the top of my head...though not necessarily an accurate surmise...The City! Perhaps?