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The New Ray Bradbury Review - Number 4, 2015 (Paperback)
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The New Ray Bradbury Review - Number 4, 2015 (Paperback)
Series: The New Ray Bradbury Review
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Each previous The New Ray Bradbury Review, prepared and edited by
the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, examines the impact of
Bradbury's writings on American culture and his legacy as one of
the master storytellers of his time. The late Ray Bradbury's
metaphor-rich imagination led to a prolific and highly influential
career spanning seven decades, but it also left a decades-long
field of deferred fragmentary fictions and story ideas that would
remain unfulfilled creations. For Number 4, William F. Touponce,
founding editor emeritus of the Review, has gathered and introduced
fascinating examples of story ideas, brief story openings and
endings, and extended story openings that will forever remain
dreams deferred. The fragments presented in this issue illustrate
Bradbury's progressive stages of creativity during story
composition, and to that end some of the physical elements of
presentation are preserved in layout. The selections are followed
by a list of recent discoveries that supplement the comprehensive
checklist of known fragments included in previous editions of the
Review. Number 4 concludes with Jonathan Eller's "Fragmentary
Futures," a survey of Bradbury's surviving preliminary outlines and
projected timetables for future books-tenuous documents that convey
a sense of the instability lurking beneath Bradbury's solid and
enduring achievements as a masterful teller of tales. Number 4 of
the Review completes the all-archival presentation begun with
Number 3, which focused on the thematic range of the surviving
fragments. The story openings presented in Number 4 reveal the
hidden tension between Bradbury's subconscious inspirations and the
stifling effects of his own self-conscious thoughts-the more
logical thought patterns that he desperately tried to hold at bay
during the few hours it would take him to complete an initial
draft. Time and again, rational thought extinguished the initial
subconscious upwelling of character and scene, causing him to set
these fragments aside for a day that never came. The New Ray
Bradbury Review and the multivolume Collected Stories of Ray
Bradbury are the primary publications of the Center for Ray
Bradbury Studies, the major archive of Bradbury's writings located
at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI).
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