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Authors: Ray Bradbury
R
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B
RADBURY
, the author of more than thirty books, is the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Some of his best-known works are
Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine
, and
Something Wicked This Way Comes
. A writer for both theater and cinema, he has adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's
The Ray Bradbury Theater
. He won an Emmy for his teleplay of
The Halloween Tree
and was nominated for an Academy Award. He lives with his wife, Marguerite, in Los Angeles.
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“Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine” (originally titled “Charlie Is My Darling”) and “I Sing the Body Electric!” (originally titled “The Beautiful One Is Here”) first appeared in
McCall's
magazine. “The Cold Wind and the Warm” was originally published in
Harper's
magazine. “The Women” was originally published in
Famous Fantastic Mysteries
. “The Tombling Day” was originally published in
Shenandoah
. “Heavy-Set,” “The Man in the Rorschach Suit,” “Lost City of Mars,” and “Downwind from Gettysburg” were originally published in
Playboy
magazine “The Kilimanjaro Device” (originally titled “The Kilimanjaro Machine”) first appeared in
Life
magazine. “Henry IX” (originally titled “A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown”) first appeared in
Fantasy & Science Fiction
. “The Blue Bottle” Copyright 1950 by Love Romances Publishing Inc. “Punishment Without Crime” Copyright 1950 by
Other Worlds
. “One Timeless Spring” first appeared in
Collier's
. “A Piece of Wood” first appeared in
Esquire
. “The Utterly Perfect Murder” (originally titled “My Perfect Murder”) and “The Parrot Who Met Papa” first appeared in
Playboy
magazine. “Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds” first appeared in
Gallery
.
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC
. Copyright © 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976 by Ray Bradbury. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Avon Books edition published 1998.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 0-380-78962-0
EPub Edition © JUNE 2013 ISBN: 9780062242280
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