5/22/2023 0 Comments Quicker than the eye ray bradbury![]() In ""Last Rites,"" an inventor uses his time machine to reassure his literary heroes-Melville, Poe, Wilde-on their deathbeds that they will be cherished by future generations. ""At the End of the Ninth Year"" develops the idea that the human body fully remakes itself at the molecular level every nine years. The realistic ""The Other Highway"" describes a family's drive down an old, unused highway to an almost forgotten world. In his first collection since The Toynbee Connector (1988), Bradbury, who's 76, displays a particular fascination with evading the strictures of time through science, history, literature, the supernatural or simple reminiscence. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the sentimental to the spooky, this grab bag of 21 recent tales from the seemingly ageless imagination of Bradbury whimsically explores themes of love, nostalgia, magic, literature and mortality. ![]()
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