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Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

Ray Bradbury

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Not Free SF Reader 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 12 people found this review helpful.

A large collection of quite short stories, published first in all sorts of places, some of them of the mundane variety, which I have taken out. A lot of these in past I have found dated and a bit twee, and it hasn't changed too much now. (3.34 average overall for around 70 of 'em, so not too bad).


Bradbury Stories : The Whole Town's Sleeping - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Rocket ["Outcast of the Stars"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Season of Disbelief - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : And the Rock Cried Out ["The Millionth Murder"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Drummer Boy of Shiloh - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Beggar on O'Connell Bridge ["The Beggar on Dublin Bridge"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Flying Machine - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Heavy-Set - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The First Night of Lent - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Lafayette Farewell - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Remember Sascha? - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Junior - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : That Woman on the Lawn - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : February 1999: Ylla ["I'll Not Look for Wine"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Banshee - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Unterderseaboat Doktor ["Unterseeboot Doktor"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Another Fine Mess - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Dwarf - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : A Wild Night in Galway - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Wind - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : No News or What Killed the Dog? - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : A Little Journey - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine ["The Best of Times"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Garbage Collector - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Visitor - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Man - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Henry the Ninth ["A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Messiah - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Bang! You're Dead! [Johnny Choir] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Darling Adolf - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Beautiful Shave - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : I See You Never - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Exiles ["The Mad Wizards of Mars"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : At Midnight, In the Month of June - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Witch Door - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Watchers - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : 2004-05: The Naming of Names - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Hopscotch - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Dead Man - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : June 2001: And the Moon Be Still as Bright - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Burning Man - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : G.B.S.-Mark V - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : A Blade of Grass - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Sound of Summer Running ["Summer in the Air"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : And the Sailor Home from the Sea ["Forever Voyage"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Lonely Ones - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Finnegan - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : On the Orient, North - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Smiling People - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl ["Touch and Go"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Bug - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Downwind from Gettysburg - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Time in Thy Flight - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Changeling - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Dragon - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Let's Play "Poison" - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Cold Wind and the Warm - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Meadow - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Kilimanjaro Device ["The Kilimanjaro Machine"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Man in the Rorschach Shirt - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Pedestrian - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Trapdoor - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Swan - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Sea Shell - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Once More, Legato - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : June 2003: Way in the Middle of the Air - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : By the Numbers! - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : April 2005: Usher II ["Carnival of Madness"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Square Pegs - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Trolley - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Smile - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Miracles of Jamie - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : A Far-Away Guitar ["Miss Bidwell"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Cistern - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Machineries of Joy - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Bright Phoenix - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Wish - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Life Work of Juan Diaz - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Time Intervening ["Interim"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Almost the End of the World - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Great Collision of Monday Last - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Poems - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The April 2006: Long Years - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Icarus Montgolfier Wright - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Death and the Maiden - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Zero Hour - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Toynbee Convector - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Forever and the Earth - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Handler - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Getting Through Sunday Somehow ["Tread Lightly to the Music"] - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Pumpernickel - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : Last Rites - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse - Ray Bradbury
Bradbury Stories : All on a Summer's Night - Ray Bradbury


Killer surprise.

3.5 out of 5


Nifty ride for the kids.

3 out of 5


Resigned to their new world.

3 out of 5


Grass ghost girl.

3.5 out of 5


Noisy dead woman waits for the obnoxious.

4 out of 5


Kaleidoscope periscope.

2.5 out of 5


Ghost return.

2.5 out of 5


Scary little dude.

3.5 out of 5


Unexpected airy visitor.

3.5 out of 5


Losing a dog in the science fiction age.

4 out of 5


Old women spaced.

2.5 out of 5


Nuke 'em, the garbos will clean it up.

3 out of 5


Hypnotist victim of Martian isolated projectile overenthusiasm.

3.5 out of 5


Locals not too impressed by space travellers.

3.5 out of 5


No longer have any use for that royalty rubbish or the country.

3.5 out of 5


Conversion of Martians a tall order.

3 out of 5


Midwestern Egypt.

3 out of 5


Old horror men on the red planet.

3.5 out of 5


Suspect woman.

3.5 out of 5


Insect phobia.

4 out of 5


Martian boot hill.

3 out of 5


Fat man's scary tattoos.

3.5 out of 5


Alive, maybe not, but definitely smelly.

3 out of 5


Chicken pox, and murder.

3 out of 5


Robot play dude.

3 out of 5


Organic life a no-no.

3.5 out of 5


Two hard up guys on Mars, smell woman, start shooting.

3 out of 5


Big spider, it seems.

3.5 out of 5


Ghost on train prefers English tastes.

4 out of 5


Cutthroat dinner.

3.5 out of 5


Dead art and little spiders.

3 out of 5


Dead president possibilities.

3.5 out of 5


Time kids.

2.5 out of 5


Replacement people.

3 out of 5


Iron monster.

3.5 out of 5


Defenestrating death kids.

3.5 out of 5


Complaining about the weather is for the sidhe.

3 out of 5


Time travel timing.

3.5 out of 5


Sensory stunning.

3.5 out of 5


2053 is pretty crime free.

3.5 out of 5


Vertical luggage overload, or really, really big rodents.

4 out of 5


Life tour with deadline.

3.5 out of 5


Sick kid's swimming disappearance.

3 out of 5


Beautiful bird noises.

4 out of 5


Mars trip not popular with all.

2.5 out of 5


Retirement, with a bullet.

3.5 out of 5


Book and ball people.

3.5 out of 5


Ship off the crazy people.

3.5 out of 5


Healing and leading can get you down.

3 out of 5


Well dead.

3.5 out of 5


Priests in space.

3.5 out of 5


Wanted: undead dad.

3.5 out of 5


Unexpected exhumation.

3.5 out of 5


Bad colors.

3 out of 5


Dead cyclist sightings.

3 out of 5


Good writing can be bad for reality.

3 out of 5


Electric people simulation.

4 out of 5


Get lost, Reaper.

3 out of 5


Martian kid games.

3.5 out of 5


Time traveler paradox interview fib pep talk function.

4 out of 5


Futurist writing is tricky.

4 out of 5


Undertaking revenge.

3.5 out of 5


Harping.

3 out of 5


Time travel benediction.

3 out of 5

Editorial Review:

For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself, and span a career that blossomed in the pulp magazines of the early 1940s and continues to flourish in the new millennium. Here are representatives of the legendary author's finest works of short fiction, including many that have not been republished for decades, all forever fresh and vital, evocative and immensely entertaining.

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.

Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

True Fiction 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

True Fiction
Though this book [Faremhieght 451] is a piece science fiction, it relates in its own little ways to the way the world is today. I, for one, can see this world of ours turning into a world with the same basis and same ideals that make up this book Farenhieght 451; a world which trys to keep everyone happy and careless about everything to the point of making people seemingly mindless, and in the process of doing so they destroy everything that brings people feeling and a individual way of thinking. Farenhieght 451 is a must read for anyone who likes a good philosophical novel.

Editorial Review:

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, 'Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

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Total reviews: 208 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town (as well as their own), makes for compelling reading on timeless themes. What would you do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia-drenched Dandelion Wine, in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn. --Stanley Wiater

The Dark Descent

Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Multitudinous tome for the horror and preternatural aficionado 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 14 people found this review helpful.

This publication rivals most of the horror/ mystery compilations printed elsewhere. Some of the most consequential and prolific ink slingers of the creepy and the dreary are featured here, and they don't disappoint.

Here, in this volume, you will find it all. The works of King, Bradbury, Jackson, Lovecraft, Poe and many others are at your reading pleasure. Some of my personal favorites: The Beach (King); The Call of the Cthulhu (Lovecraft); Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (Bloch)...I could go on for ever.

Editorial Review:

If you could have only one anthology of dark stories, this would be the one to have. Having observed that "fans of horror fiction most often restrict their reading to books and stories given a horror category label, thus missing some of the finest pleasures in that fictional mode," David G. Hartwell assembles here 56 important tales within an insightful critical framework; his purpose is to "clear the air and broaden future considerations of horror." Several well-known classics are included, but there are also dozens of lesser-known horror tales, including many by science fiction and literary writers. Get one copy for yourself. Get another for that friend or relative who doesn't understand why you like to read horror.

Golden Apples of the Sun, The

Ray Bradbury

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outrÉ fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safary, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centurys great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.

Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99

Ray Bradbury

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"And Death will lie silent forever In June and June and more June." 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

If there is something you can take away from this book, then let it be that some stories aren't just cranked out of the typewriter, word processor, or whatever method the author uses to put them onto paper. They are often the product of constant revision and framing that takes place over years, or even decades before the author is satisfied with the final draft. Take for example the two novellas featured in Now and Forever: "Somewhere a Band Is Playing" and "Leviathan '99". The genesis for the former came from 1926 Tucson, Arizona. And the latter story's roots came from the days in which radio was the main source of entertainment.

In "Somewhere a Band Is Playing", a reporter named James Cardiff finds himself mysteriously drawn to the unmapped town of Summerton, Arizona. At first, he doesn't completely understand why he is here of all places. But the more he stays, the stranger the truth is and the clearer his understanding becomes. For instance, there are no children in the town. Even more shocking is how in the town's cemetery, the tombstones have the names and dates of birth engraved upon them; but where the date of death should be is blank, unetched stone.

I am reminded of a cross between a much less sinister version of Bradbury's own "Mars is Heaven" and James Hinton's Lost Horizon: A Novel. Cardiff is in many ways like Hugh Conway, particulary how both of them are torn between paradise and the less perfect world that the rest of us live in. Yet Bradbury infuses the story with more than enough originality and flair, so it is its own unique entity.

"Leviathan '99" is a futuristic take on Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Instead of hearing the call to the sea, Ishmael feels the pull of the cosmos. The whaling vessel Pequod becomes the gigantic starship Cetus 7. The titular white whale of Melville's novel is replaced by a comet that may be on a collision course with Earth. And Captain Ahab is now blind, insane, and will stop at nothing in order to conquer the comet that he blames for taking his sight.

This story is what I have always wanted to read from Bradbury - cosmic fiction of novella length. I say cosmic (not science) fiction since his work entails very little actual science utilized by hard SF giants like Clarke, Asimov, or Heinlein. But I still find it tremendously enjoyable nonetheless even with all the technical innaccuracies. Getting back to the subject, he has more short story collections than novels; none of those really leave the Earthly domain. Here he finally has the space to let his imagination run free, especially when it comes to the Captain's dementedly Shakespearean monologues.

Seeing how he is now 88 years old, Bradbury will probably never put out another book that will create a major cultural impact like Fahrenheit 451 or The Martian Chronicles. However, I find Now and Forever to be another worthy addition to his canon, and so will many of his longtime readers.

Editorial Review:

A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . .

The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . .

Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas—each distinctly different, yet uniquely Bradbury—demonstrate the breathtaking range of his undimmed talent and the irrepressible vitality of the mind, spirit, and heart of America's preeminent storyteller.

Bradbury Classic Stories 1: From the Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket (Grand Master Editions)

Ray Bradbury

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Unbelievable 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

These stories are the most piognant I have ever read except in The Martian Chronicles. These stories are mind blowing. Bradbury is the greatest short story writer of our time and maybe all time.

Genius 5 out of 5 stars.
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Ray Bradbury is a genius-pure and simple. He is a great. Proof is his power to affect the heart while engaging the intellect.

I love this book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I highly recommend this book to any fan of Ray Bradbury's work, or to anyone who wishes to introduce his classic works into their library. He is a passionate visionary that writes not only about sci-fi, but his colorful writing style encapsulates the sometimes ineffable feelings that each and every one of us have had about every possible situation in life, and dare I say, in death. I always feel like a kid again when I read his books, I am taken away to warm, sunny Saturdays when I was still in awe of the newness of life. I can hardly force myself to read the works of others as I am convinced that no one can do with words the magic that Ray Bradbury has done.

Editorial Review:

A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future.  Selected from his best-selling collections The Golden Apples Of The Sun and R Is For Rocket, here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age--the inimitable Ray Bradbury.

Farenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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Dry leaves serve the fire 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Just try to imagine how could be our world today with every book with a death sentence... it would be worst that it is today.
This is a terrific story, which comes from a desperate internal scream of liberty, `cause our freedom is made in the cements of the knowledge. Bradboury paints us a history perfect to be the worst nightmare ever; every detail was clearly study step by step, to gain us into a wonderful story that mede me feel at first horror and later a little bit of pain, just to think that once the world not far enough was tried to get ruled by an enmey of the many expressions of thinking.

The main message of this history is to valuate and feel a posetion feeling of our information, but mainly of the imprent information, which it has been leaving behind by this generation.

Fancies and Goodnights (New York Review Books)

John Collier

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Ian Myles Slater on: A Complete Reprint 5 out of 5 stars.
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"Fancies and Goodnights" is a superb selection of John Collier's short stories: the enthusiastic reviews on Amazon are a good measure of the response of many readers to his mixture of whimsy, satire, understatement, ingenious concepts, and very polite English bemusement -- with the first half of the twentieth century in general, and New York and Hollywood in particular.

I am adding this review to the chorus of praise because there is some possible bibliographical confusion (as an earlier reviewer briefly warned).

The title "Fancies and Goodnights" has been used for two related collections, one a shorter version of the other. The 1951 version, of which this "New York Review Books" edition is a complete reprinting, contained fifty stories. This is far and away the better of the two. It has been reprinted before; I have a copy of a "Bantam Giant" mass-market paperback from 1953.

A shorter edition, with only thirty-two of the stories, has also been published under the same title. A copy of this shorter "Fancies and Goodnights" I have on hand is an edition issued in the old Time Reading Program Special Edition series (1965). It includes much praise of Collier by Fred Hoyle (then at the height of his fame as an astronomer/cosmologist/novelist), but no notice (so far as I can see) that it was not the full version, and that a reader who knew the older form could search it in vain for a remembered story. Copies of this "revised edition" dated at least as late as 1980 are available.

I am not sure if the Time Reading Program edition was the first short-text version. I once did a library search for copies, twenty-some years ago, and I believe that I found at least one other such cut edition, from a different publisher, with the same reduced selection.

If you have one of these shorter versions, and are happy with it, you will almost certainly want the extra material available in the full version; some of the eighteen additional stories, at least, will be a real treat. If you are ordering a used copy, even if the publisher is not Time Life Books, you should try to compare the length to other editions.

To add to the complications, forty-one of these fifty stories were included, with some others not in "Fancies," in the collection "The Best of John Collier" (Pocket Books paperback, 1975). The six added stories *may* make that volume an attractive acquisition to a Collier fan, despite the extensive overlap; and if you already have a copy, you *might* want to consider a full copy of "Fancies and Goodnights."

However, "The Best ..." was itself a cut version of a larger volume!

"The John Collier Reader," a long-out-of-print omnibus, included, in addition to the forty-seven short stories found in "The Best...," two chapters from "Defy the Foul Fiend, or, The Misadventures of a Heart" (1934), and a complete text of another of Collier's novels, "His Monkey Wife, or, Married to a Chimp " (1930).

See what I mean about confusion?

(Unlike "Defy the Foul Fiend," "His Monkey Wife" is currently in print, also as a New York Review Book. The adventures of an educated chimpanzee who attempts to look after her feckless Englishman, it is, depending on your point of view, an attack on men, or on women, or on marriage, with just a touch of satire on the Empire. For many of those who react to it strongly, it is either offensive but very funny, or just offensive. There are those who find it too funny to be offensive. I don't find it *successful* enough to have a strong opinion against it... or for it. It seems to me to contain a brilliant shorter work stretched beyond its limits.)

It is great to have "Fancies and Goodnights" back in print. For John Collier's fans -- or at least the fans of his short fiction -- there is an unmet need for a really comprehensive collection of his stories. In a more ideal world -- perhaps one arranged by one of Collier's polished fiends or bewildered angels -- a large, and non-overlapping, collection of additional Collier stories would be available as well.

Editorial Review:

John Collier's wild and sardonic tales, which were for many years a fixture in the pages of The New Yorker, are, in the opinion of his many devoted admirers, as good as - indeed better than - the best of Saki and Roald Dahl. In stories that explore the logic of lunacy, presenting the most fantastical occurrences as commonplace fact, Collier not only tickles the fancy, but tests our nerve, making us wonder just how deep and firmly placed are the foundations of the (seemingly) real world. Here longtime Collier fan Ray Bradbury offers a new selection of the most inspired works of this singular modern genius.