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
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.