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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Eller's review of his muse's last for years of work brings to a satisfying conclusion a decade-long project to recount the life on one of American's most prolific and respected writers. . . .Eller illuminates the life and eventual death of this great American writer in a way that truly enriches any reader's understanding of him. This quiet yet present cultural icon may not always have had the impact he hoped for, but Bradbury clearly left a written legacy meriting a three-volume biography." --
H-Net"Certain to be our generation's definitive life of Bradbury . . . This book makes an effective case for Bradbury's literary and social significance." --
Science Fiction Studies "This final volume, published in the centennial years of its subject, is a fitting tribute to an admirable American original." --University Bookman
"An enlightening examination of the last years of Bradbury's remarkable life . . . Essential." --
Choice "The careful detail of this biography paints a rich portrait of Bradbury as a talented conversationalist and gifted collaborator and allows readers to understand the nuances of his professional relationships." --
Science "Jonathan Eller’s final volume of his excellent biography of Ray Bradbury is an elegant and often poetic celebration of our great friend and a great man. Many wonderful memories return, and futures rise up. This book helps Ray follow the advice of Mr. Electrico: Live forever."--Greg Bear
"The third book from Jonathan Eller dealing with the creative life of Ray Bradbury is just as amazing and brilliant and insightful as the previous volumes. My only disappointment is that it's over, and unlike the others, this one carries a sweet and sour coating of finality. As it neared the end of Ray Bradbury's life and creative works, I wept. And that usually takes a knife wound. An insightful roundup of Ray Bradbury's life, inspirations, triumphs, and disappointments makes this one of the best books about an author I've ever read, and I've read a few. It's a triumph."
--Joe R. Lansdale
"Jonathan Eller's conclusion to his biographical trilogy tracing the life and work of Ray Bradbury is every bit as terrific as the previous two volumes. Meticulous, informative, critically insightful, entertaining and utterly indispensable, it's just what one expects from our greatest authority on this great American writer."—Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the
Washington Post "Eller's exhaustive exploration of Bradbury's creative output ties together how the strands of the author's restless imagination created a cohesive body of work with theme and panache. A must-have for Bradbury fans and sf scholars, and the perfect companion to the earlier volumes in the trilogy." --
Library Journal "As with his earlier volumes, Eller makes meticulous use of his detailed research and extraordinary access to materials such as correspondence, manuscripts, and notebooks. The focus here is less on how Bradbury became a major writer, or how he parlayed his early success, than on his status as what Eller quite defensibly calls an American icon."--Gary K. Wolfe, author of
Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature "Eller’s achievement in
Bradbury Beyond Apollo and his two previous volumes will stand for years as the most penetrating view into the creative fire that was Bradbury’s mind and talent. It is a work of clear-eyed scholarship and, it must be said, love." --
The Emotional Rationalist "A well-crafted biography of a man who inspired 'cosmic awareness in the everyday world.'" --
Kirkus "
Bradbury Beyond Apollo satisfyingly closed out a minutely researched and finely realized three-volume biography of Ray Bradbury. " --
LocusTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Inherited Wish
1. Prometheus Bound
2. The Darkness Between the Stars
3. A Teller of Tales
4. The Prisoner of Gravity
5. Witness and Celebrate
6. The Sleep of Reason
7. The Inherited Wish
8. Long After Midnight
9. A Mailbox on Mars
Part II. Beyond Eden
10. The God in Science Fiction
11. Infinite Worlds
12. Abandon in Place
13. Beyond Eden
14. Robot Museums
15. The Great Shout of the Universe
16. A Eureka Year
17. One-Way Ticket Man
Part III. 1984 Will Not Arrive
18. “My Name Is Dark”
19. A Most Favorite Subject
20. Memories of Murder
21. 1984 Will Not Arrive
22. Death Is a Lonely Business
23. A Poet’s Heart
24. Forms of Things Unknown
25. Time Flies
26. Beyond the Iron Curtain
Part IV. Graveyard for Lunatics
27. A Graveyard for Lunatics
28. Disputed Passage
29. Green Shadows, White Whale
30. The ABCs of Science Fiction
31. An American Icon
32. Harvest Time
33. A Promise of Eternity
34. Séances and Ghosts
35. An Evening on Mars
Part V. Closing the Book
36. “Make Haste to Live”
37. Messages in a Bottle
38. The Fire Within
39. A Child’s Imagination
40. Farewell Summer
41. Samurai Kabuki
42. “Nothing Has to Die”
43. Visions of Mars
44. Remembrance
45. Closing the Book
Notes
Index
