Archive for Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s Bullet Trick
Posted by: | CommentsGauntlet Press has announced that their 2009 Ray Bradbury title will be Bullet Trick, a collection of previously unpublished material. Donn Albright, the book’s editor offers this description:
Bullet Trick contains 5 never before published teleplays (original stories that were not based on previously written stories), written by Ray Bradbury, that appeared on TV from 1955 through 1963. With the exception of the 1959 Steve Canyon production the other 4 teleplays deal with fear and paranoia. A feeling of dark gloom and hopelessness hovers over “The Jail” and “Dial Double Zero.” “Bullet Trick” deals with the age old problem of an unhappy marriage and infidelity. “Tunnel to Yesterday” deals with the paranoia and fear of a war long gone.
Bradbury wrote three scripts for the original Twilight Zone, adapted from previously published Bradbury yarns. Only “I Sing the Body Electric” (appearing only in the lettered edition) was actually produced for the original Twilight Zone series. “Here There Be Tygers” and “A Miracle of Rare Devices” were never produced. All three appear in this collection.
Finally, the book contains two prose adaptations Bradbury wrote after he wrote the screenplays. Both “Bullet Trick” and “Hand In Glove” (“The Jail”) are far different than the teleplays.
The book is scheduled for a Halloween 2009 release. Ray Bradbury is beginning to sign tipsheets. Gauntlet will have pricing information up before the end of the year and pre-ordering will begin in January. The lettered edition of our two most recent Bradbury books (Somewhere A Band Is Playing and Masks) sold out prior to publication.
PS Publishing Releases Five New Titles
Posted by: | CommentsPS Publishing has announced the release of Postscripts #16, Living With The Dead by Darrell Schweitzer, Impossibilia: PS Showcase #5 by Douglas Smith, The City in These Pages by John Grant, and The Day It Rained Forever by Ray Bradbury. You can learn more about each of these titles directly from the publisher on their website: PS Publishing
New Titles By Ray Bradbury And Lucius Shepard
Posted by: | CommentsSubterranean Press has announced two new titles. The first is Marionettes, Inc. by Ray Bradbury. In five stories (one of them original to this collection, plus a rare, previously unpublished screen treatment), Bradbury explores the concept of Robotics and examines its impact on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. The trade hardcover sells for $35. Find out more here: Marionettes, Inc.
The second title is a two-novella volume by Lucius Shepard that contains the previously uncollected tales Vacancy and Ariel. Both are Lucius at the top of his game, and not slated to appear in any collection in the near future, so you’ll be getting 220 pages of Shepard’s luminous prose, all wrapped up neatly in a double-fronted dust jacket by J. K. Potter. This one will be released in January. To find out more: Lucius Shepard
Forthcoming Titles From Gauntlet Press
Posted by: | CommentsIn their most recent newsletter, Gauntlet Press reports the status of their forthcoming titles as:
Masks by Ray Bradbury: Lettered now shipping.
Legacies: 10th Anniversary Edition by F. Paul Wilson: Winter release
He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson: February 2009
As Timeless As Infinity: The Twilight Zone Scripts Of Rod Serling, Vol. 6: Late-February
Summer Morning, Summer Night Shipping
Posted by: | CommentsSubterranean Press reports that they’re in the process of shipping out all 2000 copies of Ray Bradbury’s loving return to Green Town, Summer Morning, Summer Night.
Here’s a note on the importance of the book’s contents from one of its editors, Jon Eller: “Summer Morning, Summer Night was to be Ray Bradbury’s first true novel, a highly personal look back at the rapidly disappearing small-town world of the American heartland. But the transition from a master storyteller to mature novelist is a complex process, and Bradbury was constantly distracted by other major projects and opportunities. Finally, in the winter of 1955-56, after consulting with his Doubleday editor, Bradbury indefinitely deferred publication of the novel by extracting seventeen stories and bridging them (along with three other Green Town tales) into his 1957 masterpiece, Dandelion Wine. That ever-popular book, along with Bradbury’s 2006 publication of the original novel, now titled Farewell Summer, finally allows us to see what stories and episodes Bradbury decided to retain as he created two books out of one. However, one crucial part of the creative record has never been collected – the stories, scenes and fragments that Bradbury moved out of both books. The most significant of these deleted titles are gathered for the first time in this new collection of Green Town stories.”
You can still order the 2000 deluxe fully cloth-bound trade hardcover edition for $35 here: Summer Morning, Summer Night
