Driving Blind

By Ray Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.

Over the course of a long and celebrated career, Ray Bradbury has traveled many roads: cruising down country highways that wound through the unseen heart of small-town America; exploring rutted backwoods paths that led to dark and dangerous places; racing at mach-speed along shimmering celestial turnpikes as limitless and exciting as the unbound imagination.

DRIVING BLIND is a stunning collection of short fiction. With a steady hand on the wheel, the master once again transports us to remarkable places – and to warm and achingly familiar destinations of the heart, revealed as we've never seen them before in the brilliance of day or gloom of night. Here are unforgettable excursions to the fantastic, glorious grand tours through time and memory – interspersed with strange, unexpected side trips to the disturbing and eerie – where surprises are waiting around every curve and just beyond each mile marker.

These are new roads we have never ridden before – sprawling interstates and lush, twisting rural routes fraught with dangers and delights of all manner, shape and substance. With Ray Bradbury in the driver's seat, the journey promises to be a memorable one. Come along and enjoy the ride.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Aug 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9780007541744

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'

Reviews for Driving Blind

[vivl_6 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I haven't finished this. I found it like wading through peanut butter--heavy going. I'll try to finish it, reading the odd story every now and then since I hate to judge the book on less than half of the content, but the first 10 or so stories really fell flat. None of the stories were well-plotted or gripped me to any extent, although there were glimmers of emotionally stirring writing. A great pity--I have loved Ray Bradbury's writing in the past.

[jeanned_14 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book of short stories turns largely on themes of memory and potential: who we were, who we thought we might become, who we actually become, and, having become that person, how we remember ourselves and others and the moments we inhabited together. Some of the stories have a feel of magical realism, while others drift into fantasy or horror and at least a few make their beginnings in the sci-fi genre. I rate this collection of tales at 7 of 10 stars.

[nelliemc · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Bradbury hasn't really aged well or maybe I haven't. He just doesn't give me the same wow factor as when I was younger, and some of his stories are fairly obscure. Still great beach reading; stil a great author, but his stories don't stick anymore.