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Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars-and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry-yet marries-his beloved eighth-grade teacher... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is offered a possibly Mephistophelean proposal by which he might gain a perfect love and a magical immunity... A jealous husband who orders an exact replica of his unfaithful wife from an android manufacturing company (purpose: murder) runs afoul of the compassionate new "live robot" law... At forty-eight, seized with an overwhelming desire to settle an old score, a man journeys back into the past under the spell of his "utterly perfect, incredibly delightful idea," only to recoil in stunned disbelief when he confronts, at last, his former tormentor... Bradbury's imaginative field is boundless. In this book, his stories carry us from the cozy familiarity of the small-town America we lived in in Dandelion Wine to the frozen desert and double moon that have been part of our interior landscape since The Martian Chronicles. His characters range from the "ordinary"-a rookie cop, an unhappy wife on vacation in Mexico, an old parish priest hearing confession-to the quite extraordinary: the parrot to whom Ernest Hemingway confided the plot of his last, greatest, never-put-down-on-paper novel, and a woman who, in New York City in the summer of 1974, hangs out a sign reading "Melissa Toad, Witch." Fantastic or conventional, chillingly suspenseful or hauntingly nostalgic, each of these stories has that aura of the unexpected combined with the special ring of absolute rightness that is brilliantly, uniquely Bradbury.
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"This is the first book of R-Brad's I ever read. Probably too early, but the actual story "Long After Midnight" in this collection is magical and weird and so real. It's like Ray-Ray was a completely different storyteller for a moment. "
— Chris (4 out of 5 stars)
Long After Midnight Listener Reviews
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" i read this a long time ago. need to get re-acquainted. "
— Alex, 2/12/2014 -
" "The October Game" makes for excellent story-telling with older teens and adults. "
— Hilary, 1/29/2014 -
" Ray Bradbury published over 500 short stories. And they're all great. I love you, Ray Bradbury. "
— Amanda, 1/26/2014 -
" Most of the short stores I enjoyed. The Perfect Murder is really thought provoking. Can you imagine a world where you could murder a robot who is a replica of the person you hate? The emotions described are very good. Some of the stories I wanted more and some didn't strike my fancy as much. "
— Breena, 1/23/2014 -
" This book is what made me love Ray Bradbury. The Blue Bottle is one of the most brilliant stories ever written. The 2 geniuses of the century...Rod Serling and Ray Bradbury. "
— Wendy, 1/20/2014 -
" My idiosyncratic favorite Bradbury collection. I don't have to justify it. "
— Aric, 1/18/2014 -
" Read the words off this book "
— Damon, 12/5/2013 -
" The audio book was a little hard to transition between stories, but otherwise a good classic Ray Bradbury book "
— Mike, 11/20/2013 -
" I really liked this collection of short stories. Ray Bradbury was way ahead of his time! I enjoyed the variety of subject matter he covers. There were only a couple "sci-fi" stories. "
— Crystal, 11/19/2013 -
" Some stories were creepy -- others not so much. I liked reading more about Mars, especially after reading The Martian Chronicles. "
— Elanor, 9/21/2013 -
" Good, typical collection of Bradbury short stories. "
— Bracken, 8/5/2013 -
" I read this book before - sometime in the 1980's and the stories were as delightful as when I first read them. My very favorite was the "The Burning Man". "
— Deborah, 7/24/2013 -
" A good mix of science fiction and regular fiction short stories as written by a master author. "
— Georgene, 12/4/2012 -
" More short stories. Some of these have horrific elements but they aren't quite horror, fantasy or SF. "
— Charles, 11/30/2012 -
" This has so many wonderful stoires in it, but that is Bradbury. His images come alive in your mind. "
— Deni, 6/7/2012 -
" Has my absolute favorite piece of Bradbury, Drink Entire: Against the Madness of the Crowds, chokes me up every time. "
— Lucas, 5/5/2012 -
" Great collection. Though some drag, others like Darling Adolf, The October Game, and The Parrot who met Pa Pa makes it a great set. "
— Anthony, 12/18/2011 -
" This is the first book of R-Brad's I ever read. Probably too early, but the actual story "Long After Midnight" in this collection is magical and weird and so real. It's like Ray-Ray was a completely different storyteller for a moment. "
— Chris, 11/1/2011 -
" Ray Bradbury published over 500 short stories. And they're all great. I love you, Ray Bradbury. "
— Amanda, 12/6/2010 -
" Un paio di racconti sono davvero belli (Gioco d'ottobre, La bottiglia azzurra), però li ho trovati spesso troppo brevi: finiscono quando la storia diventa interessante. "
— Alex, 3/11/2010 -
" i read this a long time ago. need to get re-acquainted. "
— Alex, 3/10/2010 -
" "The October Game" makes for excellent story-telling with older teens and adults. "
— Renfrew, 9/2/2009 -
" This book is what made me love Ray Bradbury. The Blue Bottle is one of the most brilliant stories ever written. The 2 geniuses of the century...Rod Serling and Ray Bradbury. "
— Wendy, 6/16/2009 -
" Some stories were creepy -- others not so much. I liked reading more about Mars, especially after reading The Martian Chronicles. "
— Elanor, 5/24/2009 -
" This has so many wonderful stoires in it, but that is Bradbury. His images come alive in your mind. "
— Deni, 8/20/2008 -
" More short stories. Some of these have horrific elements but they aren't quite horror, fantasy or SF. "
— Charles, 7/17/2008
About Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), one of the most popular science fiction writers in the world, wrote more than five hundred short stories, novels, plays, and poems. He won many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, he was the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
About MacLeod Andrews
MacLeod Andrews is a multiple Audie, Earphones, and SOVAS award-winning and Grammy-nominated narrator with hundreds of credits to his name. Perhaps best known for a cinematic approach with full characterizations and intimate deliveries in series such as The Reckoners, Sandman Slim, and Warriors, he’s also been noted for his straight reads ranging from memoirs to modern classics. When not doing books you can hear him in video games, cartoons, commercials, podcasts, and reading you the news on Apple News +. Or check out one of his films.