One More for the Road
Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection 2003.
America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. Now the master treats us to another round – eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected – a rich elixir distilled from the pungent fruit of experience and imagination, expertly prepared by a superior mixologist.
This glass overflows with a heady brew: a house where time has no boundaries; the comforts of arguments eternal; the ghosts of dear friends, errant sons and lost fathers; the addictive terror of a pre-dawn phone call. It is a superb refreshment served with wit, heart, and flair by the incomparable Bradbury. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations.
Contents:
- First Day
- Heart Transplant
- Quid Pro Quo
- After the Ball
- In Memoriam
- Tête-à-Tête
- The Dragon Danced at Midnight (aka The Year the Glop-Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes)
- The Nineteenth
- Beasts
- Autumn Afternoon
- Where All Is Emptiness There Is Room to Move
- One-Woman Show
- The Laurel and Hardy Alpha Centauri Farewell Tour
- Leftovers
- One More for the Road
- Tangerine
- With Smiles as Wide as Summer
- Time Intervening
- The Enemy in the Wheat
- Fore!
- My Son, Max
- The F. Scott/Tolstoy/Ahab Accumulator
- Well, What Do You Have to Say for Yourself?
- Diane de Forêt
- The Cricket on the Hearth
- Afterword: Metaphors, the Breakfast of Champions
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Ray Bradbury didn’t just write science fiction; he wrote about the human experience through the lens of the extraordinary, capturing the beauty and terror of being alive in a world that’s always changing. Best known for Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury’s storytelling is deeply nostalgic, poetic, and often haunting. His worlds are full of wonder, fear, and an uncanny sense of the unknown, offering readers a mirror to reflect on their own society, values, and futures.
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