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    A Little Journey
    A Little Journey
    A Little Journey
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    A Little Journey

    By Ray Bradbury and Barry N. Malzberg

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    In this short science fiction story by the acclaimed author of Fahrenheit 451, an elderly woman in search of enlightenment buys a ticket on a rocket.

    “A Little Journey” (August 1951) marks Bradbury’s final contribution to the editorial decade of Horace Gold, the editor of Galaxy magazine. Like The Martian Chronicles and “The Fireman,” the story demonstrates Bradbury’s characteristic blending so early in his career of the sentimental and the transcendent, the homely and the mystical. 

    Bradbury’s old women in space and their strange outcome are reminiscent of his more famous story “Kaleidoscope” (published in The Illustrated Man) and its conclusion shows unusual if understated power. Bradbury’s “The Fireman” (the short-form version of Fahrenheit 451 which was doubled in length for its book publication in 1953) appeared in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy and further solidified Galaxy’s reputation, as a magazine of unprecedented originality and ambition. Gold’s commitment to the highly ambitious “The Fireman” was, then, courageous for its time and gave publicity to the editor’s insistence that Galaxy was an entirely new kind of science fiction magazine, one which was far more oriented toward style and controversial social extrapolation than the other markets ever had been. Although “The Fireman” and The Martian Chronicles had been published earlier to significant attention, Bradbury in 1951 was by no means a writer of substantial reputation, and his work was regarded by most science fiction editors and readers as marginal to the genre.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 1, 2011
    ISBN9780795321177
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    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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      A Little Journey - Ray Bradbury

      A Little Journey

      The Galaxy Project

      Ray Bradbury

      Series Editor Barry N. Malzberg

      Copyright

      A Little Journey

      Copyright © 1951 by World Editions, Inc., renewed 1979 by Ray Bradbury

      eForeword

      Copyright © 2011 by Barry N. Malzberg

      Jacket illustration copyright © 1953 by the Estate of Ed Emshwiller

      Cover art to the electronic edition copyright © 2011 by RosettaBooks, LLC

      Special materials copyright © 2011 by RosettaBooks, LLC

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Electronic edition published 2011 by RosettaBooks LLC, New York.

      ISBN e-Pub edition: 9780795321177

      Contents

      About Galaxy Magazine

      About Science Fiction Novelettes and Novellas

      About the Author

      About the Author of the eForeword

      About the Jacket

      eForeword

      A Little Journey

      ABOUT GALAXY MAGAZINE

      The first issue of Galaxy, dated October 1950, already heralded to the highest standards of the field. The authors it published regularly contributed to the leading magazine Astounding, writing a kind of elegant and humanistic science fiction which although not previously unknown had always been anomalous. Its founding editor, H. L. Gold (1914–1996), was a science fiction writer of some prominence whose editorial background had been in pulp magazines and comic books; however, his ambitions were distinctly literary, and he

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