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Bradbury Beyond Apollo (Hardcover)
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Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts,
prophet of the Space Age-by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had
attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors,
let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also
embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new
creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for
generations of new fans. Drawing on numerous interviews with
Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private
collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second
half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him into
a wider range of nonfiction writing and public lectures, the
diminishing time that remained for creative pursuits went toward
Hollywood productions like the award-winning series Ray Bradbury
Theater. Bradbury developed the Spaceship Earth narration at
Disney's EPCOT Center; appeared everywhere from public television
to NASA events to comic conventions; published poetry; and mined
past triumphs for stage productions that enjoyed mixed success.
Distracted from storytelling as he became more famous, Bradbury
nonetheless published innovative experiments in autobiography
masked as detective novels, the well-received fantasy The Halloween
Tree and the masterful time travel story "The Toynbee Convector."
Yet his embrace of celebrity was often at odds with his passion for
writing, and the resulting tension continuously pulled at his sense
of self. The revelatory conclusion to the acclaimed three-part
biography, Bradbury Beyond Apollo tells the story of an
inexhaustible creative force seeking new frontiers.
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