The Shape of Things, Ray Bradbury
The Shape of Things, Ray Bradbury
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The Shape of Things
A New Form of Life: Embracing the Unconventional

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Scott Miller

Unabridged: 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scott Miller

Published: 09/11/2023

Synopsis

The Shape of Things by Ray BradburyPeter Horn hadn't planned it that way at all. Neither he nor his wife imagined that such a thing could happen to them. They had talked quietly for days about the birth of their coming child, they had eaten normal foods, slept a great deal, taken in a few shows, and, when it was time for her to fly in the helicopter to the hospital, her husband, Peter Horn, laughed and kissed her."Honey, you'll be home in six hours," he said. "These new birth–mechanisms do everything but father the child for you."She remembered an old–time song. "No, no, they can't take that away from me!" and sang it, and they laughed as the helicopter lifted themover the green way from country to city.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandy on September 17, 2024

Jumping to the author and illustrator notes on back pages, I learned that Robbins was intrigued by the history of maps.Travares admits he had given very little thought to maps until getting this assignment. In the righteous tradition of picture book production, both have done loads of research and b......more

Goodreads review by J.D. on October 04, 2024

We just got this neat book in from Junior Library Guild, and it's on a subject that interests me, so I took a few minutes and read it before it went on the shelf. The illustrations are very nice. The glossary and explanations in the back of the book are good. The text is pretty simple, but does a decen......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 22, 2024

I always love a good cover, and the cover of The Shape of Things is great. You can’t see it without wanting to know more, and it sets the stage for a fantastic history of mapmaking. Author Dean Robbins starts at the beginning, when early humans used cave art and tusks to map the way. Robbins takes re......more

Goodreads review by Read on September 09, 2024

This informational picture book by Dean Robbins celebrates the historical attempts to capture our world through maps. The book reminds that people have always been curious about the world and tried to record what they could see or imagine in various models and drawings. The book shows theories histo......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on September 22, 2024

Today many of us take getting from here to there, no matter the distance, for granted. After all, we have various road signs and maps to get us to our destinations in efficient ways. But it wasn't always so. With handsome digital artwork, this informational picture book takes readers back in time to......more

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