Quicker Than the Eye
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.
Contents:
- Unterderseaboat Doktor (aka Unterseeboot Doktor)
- Zaharoff/Richter Mark V
- Remember Sascha?
- Another Fine Mess
- The Electrocution
- Hopscotch
- The Finnegan
- That Woman on the Lawn
- The Very Gentle Murders
- Quicker than the Eye
- Dorian in Excelsis
- No News, or What Killed the Dog?
- The Witch Door
- The Ghost in the Machine
- At the End of the Ninth Year
- Bug
- Once More, Legato
- Exchange
- Free Dirt
- Last Rites
- The Other Highway
- Make Haste to Live: An Afterword
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction.