The Miracle Year: Summer and Fall

Tür:

Kitap

Yazar:

Jonathan R. Eller

Yayın yılı:

2017

Yayıncı:

University of Illinois Press

This chapter focuses on Ray Bradbury's phenomenal year as a writer during the summer and fall of 1950. A chance meeting with Christopher Isherwood at a Los Angeles bookstore in early July 1950 provided the critical breakthrough that Bradbury needed to bring <italic>The Martian Chronicles</italic> more fully into mainstream literary appreciation. The timing of Bradbury's review copy gift could not have been better; Isherwood had just agreed to write extended book reviews for <italic>Tomorrow</italic>, a new literary magazine. Isherwood's review of the <italic>Chronicles</italic> appeared in the October 1950 issue of <italic>Tomorrow</italic>. This chapter first considers the impact of Isherwood's friendship on Bradbury's career before turning to Bradbury's new “Illustrated Man” concept for Doubleday and his creation of a 100-page typescript titled <italic>Long after Midnight</italic>. It also discusses Bradbury's deal with Bantam for an anthology of new fantasy and science fiction stories.

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