{"id":52433,"date":"2022-02-03T22:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52433"},"modified":"2022-02-03T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:35:53","slug":"ray-bradbury-novels-story-cycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/ray-bradbury-novels-story-cycles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Bradbury: Novels &#038; Story Cycles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see that the Library of America is giving Ray Bradbury the same fine production values they gave Lovecraft a while back. Bradbury gets two volumes, the first being out now as a $40 900-page table-trembler titled <em>Ray Bradbury: Novels &#038; Story Cycles<\/em> (2021). <\/p>\n<p>It includes &#8220;Bradbury\u2019s settled intention&#8221; for the final-cut of the famous <em>Martian Chronicles<\/em>. Google Books can provide no contents list, but according to one interview with the venerable editor this means it includes the show-stopping satirical &#8220;Usher II&#8221; horror-story, probably best skipped the first time around. <\/p>\n<p>If you want some &#8216;starter Bradbury&#8217; that&#8217;s a little lighter on the wrists, a fine theatrical audiobook version of <em>The Martian Chronicles<\/em> is the five and a half hour full-cast audio by Colonial Radio Theatre (they use the British spelling for Theatre). Created for direct-to-CD in 2011, rather than lopped-and-chopped to fit a broadcast time-slot. They spent a lot of time making sure the sequence fitted Bradbury&#8217;s final intentions. Again, you might do best to skip &#8220;Usher II&#8221; on the first hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see that the Library of America is giving Ray Bradbury the same fine production values they gave &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/ray-bradbury-novels-story-cycles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}