Quicker Than the Eye
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The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant centuries; joining an ancient couple in their wild assassination games; celebrating life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades and has enchanted millions of readers the world over.
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Some people can be a bit sniffy about Bradbury's later works, but this collection of stories from the 1990s is hugely enjoyable.
Bradbury is a superb prose stylist, easy to read, absorbing and these short stories each have a great idea at their core. But what he also does so well is steep some of his stories in nostalgia for a time long gone (whether that time actually existed is a moot point). Several stories here are set in the fictional small town America of his childhood, that golden past that never existed, the vanished America where everything was full of hope and cosy fireside warmth.
But there are also more off the wall ideas, such as the psychiatrist who is an ex-Uboat captain complete with periscope in his office! Or the time traveller who visits authors who, in their day, considered themselves failures, in order to show them how their works survived and were loved down the ages.
Honestly there's not a bad story here. Bradbury was one of the greats.
