Ray Bradbury unbound

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Acknowledgments / xi Introduction / 1 Part I. A Place in the Sun / 5 1 Loomings / 7 2 Strangers in a Strange Land / 12 3 Indecisions, Visions, and Revisions / 17 4 Fatal Attraction / 22 5 A Whale of a Tale / 28 6 "Floreat!" / 33 7 A Place in the Sun / 39 P art II. T he End of the Beginning / 45 8 Post-Scripts / 47 9 Invitations to the Dance / 55 10 Pictures within Pictures: The October Country / 61 11 Laughton and Hitchcock / 67 12 "The First to Catch a Circus in a Lie Is a Boy" / 74 13 Various Wines / 81 14 The End of the Beginning / 89 P art III. Dark Carnivals / 97 15 Strange Interlude: Dandelion Wine / 99 16 Return to Hollywood / 106 17 "And the Rock Cried Out" / 110 18 Berenson at Sunset / 116 19 The Unforeseen / 120 20 Dreams Deferred / 128 21 The Great Wide World / 133 22 The Dreamers / 139 23 Dark Carnivals / 144 Part IV. "Cry the Cosmos" / 151 24 Medicines for Melancholy / 153 25 Escape Velocity / 159 26 Martian Odyssey / 167 27 "Cry the Cosmos" / 175 28 In the Twilight Zone / 182 29 Something Wicked This Way Comes / 191 30 Out of the Deeps / 200 31 Machineries of Joy / 208 Part V. I f the Sun Dies / 217 32 A Backward Glance / 219 33 Stops of Various Quills / 225 34 The World of Ray Bradbury / 232 35 If the Sun Dies / 237 36 Truffaut's Phoenix / 242 37 A Colder Eye / 250 38 The Isolated Man / 257 39 A Touch of the Poet / 263 40 "Christus Apollo" / 269 41 "Take Me Home" / 277 Notes / 285 Index / 301 Illustrations follow pages 96 and 216