Celebrate the NASA and SpaceX Dragon launch with a reading of “If Only We Had Taller Been”

As NASA and SpaceX launch the Dragon and Falcon 9 to send astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley off to the International Space Station, watch Ray Bradbury read his inspirational poem about the desire to explore the universe, “If Only We Had Taller Been.”

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Jonathan Eller’s Bradbury Beyond Apollo available for pre-order

Bradbury Beyond Apollo, Jonathan Eller’s final book in the acclaimed trilogy on the life of Ray Bradbury, is available for pre-order. The book, which draws on interviews with Bradbury, personal papers, and private collections, chronicles the later half of Bradbury’s life and explores Bradbury’s expanding interest in nonfiction, public speaking, and entertainment productions. The book will be released on the 100th anniversary of Bradbury’s birth, August 22, 2020.

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Fahrenheit 451 Recommended as
Essential Reading

Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book, recommended Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 as her dystopian novel of choice in the LA Times “Essential end-of-the-world reading list.” For more book suggestions by authors like Emily St. John Mandel and Wil Wheaton, view the full list by clicking the link below.

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Wil Wheaton Reads “Luana the Living”

Actor & writer Wil Wheaton (Star Trek, The Big Bang Theory, and Stand by Me) read Bradbury’s “Luana the Living” on an episode of his podcast, Radio Free Burrito. Wheaton describes this story of an explorer’s harrowing experience in the jungles of India as “*exactly* the kind of book I would have picked up from the spinning rack of fifty cent paperbacks in the drugstore.”

Published in 1940 in the fanzine Polaris when Bradbury was 19 years old, “Luana the Living,” offers a rare glimpse into the writers’ earliest works.

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