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Fahrenheit 451 (1953) were reviewed enthusiastically in the leading periodicals of the day, they were often scorned by science fiction purists. |
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Bradbury continued to branch out in his writing, adapting his stories for comic books, editing the contemporary fantasy anthologies Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow (1952) and The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories (1956), producing a children's book, Switch On the Night (1955), and writing the screenplay for John Huston's film of Moby Dick (1956). In 1957 he turned a number of his nonfantastic stories into the novel Dandelion Wine, a nostalgic paean to childish innocence and imagination. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), about a sinister traveling carnival that almost steals the souls of two young boys on the brink of manhood, further explored many of the themes addressed in Dandelion Wine. With the later novels Death Is a Lonely Business (1985), A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990), and Green Shadows, White Whale (1992), these books constitute a fictional autobiography in which Bradbury traces the persistence of youthful imagination into adulthood. |
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Since the 1960s, Bradbury has concentrated increasingly on poetry and drama. His many adaptations of his stories to the stage have been collected as Ray Bradbury on Stage: A Chrestomathy of His Plays (1991) and his poetry has been published in several volumes, beginning with When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed (1973) and culminating in Complete Poems (1982). His screenplays include It Came from Outer Space (1963) and the Oscarnominated Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962); screen adaptations of Bradbury's work by others include François Truffaut's 1966 film of Fahrenheit 451, several episodes of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," and the 1980 television miniseries based on The Martian Chronicles. Bradbury is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Science Fiction Writers of America's Nebula Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement. His literary influence can be found in the writing of Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, Charles Beaumont, Dennis Etchison, and many other leading fantasists of the day. |
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The best of this new generation of science-fiction writers are highly sensitive and intelligent. They are under |
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