| The book is "Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow". It is great. I loved a lot of the stories in this collection. His introduction is great, also.
A favorite quote of mine (by Bradbury) is from this introduction:
"I am no glib theorist or literary technician capable of diagramming these stories for you in great sweeps of logic and detail. And, the good Lord knows, the scientific method and I are only nodding acquaintances. I have had nothing but my emotions to go on, and what little I've learned in a few short years of writing in the field itself. It is all too easy for an emotionalist to go astray in the eyes of the scientific; and surely this is no handbook for the mathematician or the chemist or the specialist in physics. Somehow, though, I am compensated by allowing myself to believe that while the scientific man can tell you the exact size. location, pulse, musculature and color of the heart, we emotionalists can find and touch it quicker."
The copy I have was published by Bantam Press, copyrighted in 1952.
Hope this helps and is not too late to do you any good. |
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| Although "Frost and Fire" isn't in this one either, the only other anthology Ray ever edited was 'The Circus of Dr. Lao,' which includes stories by Charles Finney, Roald Dahl, E.B. White, Shirley Jackson, Oliver la Farge, Henry Kuttner, Robert M. Coates, "and others." Mine's an old Bantam paperback from the early '60's. It's a fine collection. Check out a used bookstore or two and you should be able to find one. Better yet, try bookfinder.com or abe.com. I bet you could find one there for under ten bucks.
Happy hunting,
-Greg |
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