Two dazzling new novellas from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. Two previously unpublished novellas comprise this astonishing new volume from one of science fiction's greatest living writers. In the first, 'Somewhere a Band is Playing', newsman James Cardiff is lured through poetry and his f
Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99
โ Scribed by Bradbury, Ray
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2013;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 104 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062242148
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โฆ Synopsis
In Somewhere a Band Is Playing, a writer is drawn by poetry and dreams to tiny Summerton, Arizona, a community hidden in plain view, where the residents, miraculously, never seem to age. Enchanted by its powerful rural magic--and by a beautiful, enigmatic lady--the writer sets out to uncover Summerton's mysteries before the inevitable arrival of a ruthless and soulless destruction. <> With Leviathan '99, the author who once colonized Mars, returns to the cosmos to brilliantly reimagine Herman Melville's classic masterwork of obsession and the sea, transforming a great whale into a massive, worlds-devouring comet. In the year 2099, fledgling astronaut Ishmael Hunnicut Jones boards the Cetus 7, placing his fate in the hands of a relentless madman who is blindly chasing the celestial monster's tail.;Somewhere a band is playing -- Leviathan '99.
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