Yestermorrow : obvious answers to impossible futures
Ray Bradbury (Author)
Experience the world of tomorrow as imagined by visionary science fiction author Ray Bradbury. Combining images from his past along with his personal musings about the future, the result is Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures. Entwined within a series of retrospective memoirs, Bradbury shares his thoughts on the state of the world--how the past and present are reflected in society, technology, and popular culture, as well as the need for thinkers and imagineers to be the architects of the future. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poetry, and philosophical reflection, readers are treated to a glimpse inside the mind of one of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the twentieth century. Bradbury reveals the creative sparks that led to some of his most well-known and enthralling stories, along with his authorial influences on his journey to becoming a prominent figure in modern literature
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9780795350498, 079535049X
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; The Voyage to Far Metaphor and Elephant India: A Preface; Fill Me with Wonder, You Architects; Art and Science Fiction; The Girls Walk This Way; The Boys Walk That Way; The Aesthetics of Lostness; Who Owns What and Which and Why; To Be Transported; The Great American "What Am I Doing Here, and Why Did I Buy That?" Hardware Store; The Aesthetics of Size; Yestermorrow Place; Yes, We'll Gather at The River; Go Not to Graveyards; Day After Tomorrow; The Renaissance Prince and the Baptist Martian; Federico Fellini; The Hipbone of Abraham L. Moviola MickeyBeyond 1984: The People Machines; The Great Electric Time Maze; A Feasting of Thoughts, A Banqueting of Words; Science Fiction: Before Christ and After 2001; Grand Tour 2484; Of What is Past, or Passing, or to Come; An Afterword by Jon A. Jerde, AIA; Acknowledgments