BRADBURY SPEAKS - Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars by Bradbury, Ray - 2005

New York: William Morrow and Company, 2005. (xi) 243 pp. Quarter-bound in blue on blue boards; lettered in silver on the spine; red endpapers; headband. Cover art by Ervin Serrano. Light edgewear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Essays on the past, the future and everything in between, this collection contains: Introduction; About Writing: My Demon, Not Afraid of Happiness; Vin Revivere or a Vintage Revisited; How Something Wicked Came; Lincoln's Doctor's Dog's Butterfly; The Whale, the Whim and I; All's Well That Ends Well... or, Unhappily Ever After; Remembrance of Books Past. About Science Fiction: Predicting the Past, Remembering the Future; Mars: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars; Earthrise and Its Faces; Falling Upward or Walking Backward to the Future; Beyond Giverny. About People: Mouser; Lord Russell and the Pipsqueak; More, Much More by Corwin; Because of the Wonderful Things He Does; A Milestone at Milestone's: Bonderchuk Remembered; Free Pass at Heaven's Gate; GBS: Refurbishing the Tin Woodman: Science Fiction with a Heart, a Brain and the Nerve. About Life: The Beautiful Bad Weather; The Affluence of Despair: America Through the Looking Glass; The Hunchback, the Phantom, the Mummy and Me; Any Friend of Trains is a Friend of Mine; I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore - The New Millennium, That Is; The Rabbit Hole Lost and Found Book Shoppe; Beyond 1984; The Ardent Blasphemers; That Future with a Funny Name; Hysteria, Goddess of Flight, or On Takeoff, Do Not Run Up and Down the Aisles Screaming; Time to Explore Again: Where Is the Madman Who'll Take Us to Mars. About Paris: Paris: Always Destroyed, Always Triumphant; The Sixty Minute Louvre: Paris by Stopwatch. About Los Angeles: Queen of Angels, Not Quite Ready for Her Close-Up; L.A. How Do I Love Thee; L.A. Outta the way and Let Us Happen; L.A. We Are the World: A New Millennium Revelation; and Disneyland, or Disney's Demon for Happiness; followed by Essay Sources.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Ervin Serrano;. 8vo.