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" P. Schuyler Miller praised the novel as among the year's best, saying that Sturgeon " has Bradbury's poetry and style without ever running thin.

Bradbury's and known
He is also known for his science fiction book covers, notably for the Corgi SF Collector's Library edition of Ray Bradbury's The Silver Locusts aka The Martian Chronicles.

Bradbury's and novel
The story of the reinterment of Sterne's skull in Coxwold is alluded to in Malcolm Bradbury's novel To The Hermitage.
* Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles depicts Martians as a refined and artistic race of golden-skinned beings who closely resemble humans.
* Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel where books are outlawed and it is the job of a " fireman " to burn them.
A quotation from Jiménez, " If they give you ruled paper, write the other way ", is the epigraph to Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451.
The title of the album was based on Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel Something Wicked This Way Comes.
The number also has significance in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, as it is the temperature at which the paper in books ignites.
Guy Montag is the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's dystopian 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451.
* " The Ballad of Maxwell Demon " contains the lyrics: " The boys from Quadrant 44 with their vicious metal hounds never come ' round here no more ," referencing Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451.
Although he is often compared with David Lodge, his friend and a contemporary as a British exponent of the campus novel genre, Bradbury's books are consistently darker in mood and less playful both in style and language.
In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), a character named Faber constructs a hidden radio earpiece that he uses to guide the thoughts and actions of the book's protagonist, Guy Montag.
* Faber ( Fahrenheit 451 ), character in Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, who creates a listening device
* Clarisse McClellan, a character from Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451
In Ray Bradbury's novel Dandelion Wine, the story of his death told by an eyewitness who calls him " Ching Ling Soo " and remembers him as having been shot in the face at Boston's Variety Theater in 1910.
The title of the film refers to Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 and the September 11 attacks of 2001.
Unlike many of Bradbury's other works, including the tangentially related Dandelion Wine, which is a collection of loosely related short stories, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a full-length novel.
Gaiman's novel American Gods can be read as a tribute to and attempt to surpass many of the " dark carnival " themes in Bradbury's work.
Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company also debuted a play based on the novel in Los Angeles on October 1, 2003, directed by Alan Neal Hubbs, also associated with the 1970 stage adaptation of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.
King mentions the novel in his The Dead Zone as an acknowledgment of Bradbury's contribution to his genre, and even echoes the beginning scene of Something Wicked by referring to a lightning-rod salesman in a chapter titled " Dark Carnival " after another Bradbury work.
Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, reputedly a fan of Bradbury's, titled his 1967 debut album Pandemonium Shadow Show after the carnival in this novel.
Her credits to date include guest roles in television series Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, Mad Men and Judging Amy, several theatre productions, including Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, as well as a number of minor film roles.
According to the biography in the book, this was Ray Bradbury's first novel since the publication of Something Wicked This Way Comes ( not counting the young adult novel The Halloween Tree ).
In an episode of the Twilight Zone, " In Praise of Pip ", a bookie tries to tell his dying son how much he loves him while chasing him inside a house of mirrors ; the 1984 movie Conan the Destroyer with Arnold Schwarzenegger contains a house of mirrors fight, and the 1983 Walt Disney movie Something Wicked This Way Comes ( an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel of the same title ) culminates in a house of mirrors confrontation.

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* Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man is about the goings-on at a " progressive " university in the South of England.
Taylor is sometimes thought to be the model for Howard Kirk in Malcolm Bradbury's novel The History Man although Bradbury and Taylor had not met at the time the book was written.

Bradbury's and Man
As such, it is similar in structure to Bradbury's short story collection, The Illustrated Man, which also uses a thin frame story to link various unrelated short stories.
In 1969, he appeared in the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with his then-wife, Claire Bloom.
Gold published many notable stories during his tenure, including Ray Bradbury's " The Fireman ", later expanded as Fahrenheit 451 ; Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters ; and Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man.
He also wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Gravy Train, the sequel The Gravy Train Goes East ( which explored life in Bradbury's fictional Slaka ), and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, Alison Lurie's Imaginary Friends and Kingsley Amis's The Green Man.
In the " Horror Fiction " chapter, King describes and reviews a number of horror novels written within a few decades of Danse Macabre, including Peter Straub's Ghost Story, Anne Rivers Siddons's The House Next Door, Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and several others.
* In Ray Bradbury's " Death-by-Rain " ( 1950 ), a short story later published as " The Long Rain " in the 1951 short story collection The Illustrated Man, four astronauts search for a man-made shelter, called a " sun dome ", on the surface of Venus, as it never stops raining.
*" A Lesson in Anatomy " ( issue 12 )-Ray Bradbury's " The Man Upstairs "
*" Home to Stay " ( issue 13 )-Ray Bradbury's " The Rocket Man " and " Kaleidoscope "
His latest novel, The Good Humor Man, while a satiric homage to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, still contains elements of horror.

Bradbury's and published
Bradbury's first paid piece, " Pendulum ," written with Henry Hasse, was published in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in November 1941, for which he earned $ 15.
Schwartz and Weisinger also founded the Solar Sales Service literary agency ( 1934 1944 ) where Schwartz represented such writers as Alfred Bester, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and H. P. Lovecraft, including some of Bradbury's first published work and Lovecraft's last.
This episode aired in 1966, fifteen years after Ray Bradbury's story was first published.
* In Ray Bradbury's " All Summer in a Day " ( 1954 ), a short story later published in the 1959 collection A Medicine for Melancholy, the sun is seen for only an hour every seven years in a colony on Venus where it is constantly raining.
" Bradbury's work inspired to Van Draanen to write How I Survived Being a Girl, which was published by HarperCollins in 1997.

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* The film director " Fritz Wong " in Ray Bradbury's novels A Graveyard for Lunatics and Let's All Kill Constance is a composite of Fritz Lang and James Wong Howe
An early version of Ray Bradbury's " The Exiles " uses Lovecraft as a character, who makes a brief, 600-word appearance eating ice cream in front of a fire and complaining about how cold he is.
Like Spender, Bradbury's message is that some types of colonization are right and others are wrong.
This notion, akin to Bradbury's " The Pedestrian ", is also alluded to in " Number 12 Looks Just Like You ", in which a perfect and equal world contradictorily considers works like those of Shakespeare " smut ".
Another possible interpretation is that the Toynbee reference comes from the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's short story " The Toynbee Convector ", which alludes to Toynbee's idea that in order to survive, humankind must always rush to meet the future, i. e., believe in a better world, and must always aim far beyond what is practically possible, in order to reach something barely within reach.
* The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, which is preparing a critical edition of Bradbury's short stories.
It was later collected in Bradbury's short story collections R is for Rocket and The Golden Apples of the Sun.
Bradbury's work in Planet Stories is regarded by one pulp historian, Tim de Forest, as " the magazine's most important contribution to the genre ".
Bradbury's short story " Banshee " is another fictionalized account of what it was like to work with Huston on this film.
Another verse, " They don't gotta burn tha books they just remove ' em " is an example of literary reference, alluding to Fahrenheit 451 and its author, Ray Bradbury's famous quote, " You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get people to stop reading them.

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