Futuria Fantasia, Summer 1939

By Ray Bradbury

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 16, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547338956

Ray Bradbury

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

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Ray Bradbury

Futuria Fantasia, Summer 1939

EAN 8596547338956

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

Vol.1 No.1

Ray S. Bradbury—editor

GREETINGS! AT LONG LAST—FUTURIA FANTASIA!

THE REVOLT OF THE SCIENTISTS

By Technocrat Bruce Yerke

DON'T GET TECHNATAL

by ron reynolds

THE RECORD

by FORREST J. ACKERMAN

THOUGHT AND SPACE

BY RAY D. BRADBURY

Vol.1 No.1

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Ray S. Bradbury—editor

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GREETINGS! AT LONG LAST—FUTURIA FANTASIA!

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The best laid plans of men, it seems, are destined for detours or permanent and disappointing annihilation upon the road to accomplishment. It was this way with Futuria Fantasia, planned for publication last summer. Piles of archaic tomes towered on all sides of the editorial desk. When the door to the office was opened unexpectedly a white gusher of manuscripts and relatives spewed out. More than once Ye Editor was suffocated unto death by the musty volumes that poured in from all over Los Angeles. And then—someone turned off the financial faucet—leaving us all soaped up, but with no water! And so, into an inforced hibernation went FuFa. The manuscripts became intimate acquaintances with all of the spiders in the family vaults—even the writers could be seen lounging around in their caskets waiting for Technocracy and their thirty doubloons every Thursday to come rolling in.

But recently, awakening from the profound inactivity of spring fever, your editor became interested in Technocracy. The more he heard about it, the more he wanted everyone else to hear. So, turning the revolving door on his crypt,