Ray Bradbury "Quicker Than The Eye" Signed Limited First Edition

Personally signed by the great Ray Bradbury

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New York, 1996. The Franklin Library. Ray Bradbury "Quicker Than The Eye" Signed First Edition. Signed by Ray Bradbury directly into the book. Brown leather binding with gilt edges and satin marker ribbon. Hardcover book with no dust-jacket as issued. Includes the original note card. A magnificent leather-bound signed first edition to display in your science fiction library. 

Quicker Than the Eye is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. The anthology features 21 stories that had not yet appeared in book form. Quicker Than the Eye features a mix of 11 old and 10 new stories.

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", which features, as a psychiatrist, a former submarine captain in Hitler's undersea fleet, making connections between sub-marine and sub-conscious.
"Zaharoff/Richter Mark V", a speculation on why so many major cities are in such dangerous locales.
"Remember Sascha?"
"Another Fine Mess", a homage to Laurel and Hardy; a sequel to "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair".
"The Electrocution"
"Hopscotch"
"The Finnegan", a tall tale in a Victorian mood.
"That Woman on the Lawn, a tangential episode in the same "universe" as Something Wicked This Way Comes
"The Very Gentle Murders", a fantasy of marital strife
"Quicker Than the Eye", which visits another carnival act.
"Dorian In Excelsis", which pays homage to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
"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", in which the author writes of writing and the back-stories of some of the stories in this collection.

Reviews

"This first new collection in nearly a decade features Bradbury's vast array of characters, settings, and approaches to science fiction worlds. Bradbury's lost none of his touch: his tales range from the ironies of cause and effect settings to encounters with mortality. The result is a satisfying collection packed with twists and turns which defy prediction." -- Midwest Book Review

From Publishers Weekly

From the sentimental to the spooky, this grab bag of 21 recent tales from the seemingly ageless imagination of Bradbury whimsically explores themes of love, nostalgia, magic, literature and mortality. In his first collection since The Toynbee Connector (1988), Bradbury, who's 76, displays a particular fascination with evading the strictures of time through science, history, literature, the supernatural or simple reminiscence. The realistic "The Other Highway" describes a family's drive down an old, unused highway to an almost forgotten world. "At the End of the Ninth Year" develops the idea that the human body fully remakes itself at the molecular level every nine years. In "Last Rites," an inventor uses his time machine to reassure his literary heroes?Melville, Poe, Wilde?on their deathbeds that they will be cherished by future generations. Ghost stories like "That Woman on the Lawn," "Another Fine Mess" and "The Witch Door" transport characters across lifetimes or centuries, while "Dorian in Excelsus," a creepy homage to Wilde, blends the supernatural with the fitness craze. Some of these pieces wax maudlin, but Bradbury stirs in a healthy measure of wit with his wide-eyed wonder. Fans won't be disappointed with this hopeful, introspective, addition to his oeuvre.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955).[4] Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).

The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".