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I Sing The Body Electric! (short Story Collection)
''I Sing the Body Electric!'' is a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book takes its name from an included short story of the same title, which in turn took the title from a poem by Walt Whitman published in his collection ''Leaves of Grass''. Contents The collection includes these stories: ; "The Kilimanjaro Device" ''(originally titled "The Kilimanjaro Machine", first appeared in ''Life Magazine'', January 1965)'': After a long drive, a man arrives in Idaho and begins to ask questions about a local who has died. In a bar, he finally finds someone who was familiar with the person he is looking for. Though the latter is never referred to by name, it becomes clear that he is none other than Ernest Hemingway. When asked why he's looking for him, the traveler reveals that his truck has the ability to travel in time. He goes further to explain that there are right graves and wrong graves; that people do not always die at the right time, and this local man is on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction. Bradbury wrote many works and is widely known by the general public for his novel ''Fahrenheit 451'' (1953) and his short-story collections ''The Martian Chronicles'' (1950) and ''The Illustrated Man'' (1951). Most of his best known work is speculative fiction, but he also worked in other genres, such as the coming of age novel ''Dandelion Wine'' (1957) and the fictionalized memoir ''Green Shadows, White Whale'' (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including ''Moby Dick'' and ''It Came from Outer Space''. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. ''The New York Times'' called Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rorschach Test
The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The test is named after its creator, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach. The Rorschach can be thought of as a psychometric examination of pareidolia, the active pattern of perceiving objects, shapes, or scenery as meaningful things to the observer's experience, the most common being faces or other pattern of forms that are not present at the time of the observation. In the 1960s, the Rorschach was the most widely used projective test. Although the Exner Scoring System (developed since the 1960s) claims to have addressed and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress. She received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, in addition to a nomination for a Grammy Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Lonelyhearts'' (1958), ''Airport'' (1970), and ''Interiors'' (1978), before winning for her performance as Emma Goldman in ''Reds'' (1981). For ''Reds'', Stapleton also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, winning for ''Airport.'' Other notable film roles included ''Bye Bye Birdie'' (1963), ''Plaza Suite'' (1971), '' The Fan'' (1981), '' Cocoon'' (1985), and ''The Money Pit'' (1986). She was nominated for seven Emmy Awards and won one for the television film ''Among the Paths to Eden'' (1967). Stapleton made her Broadway debut in 1946 in ''The Playboy of the Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Electric Grandmother
''The Electric Grandmother'' is a television movie that originally aired January 17, 1982, on NBC as a 60-minute ''Project Peacock'' special, based on the 1969 science fiction short story " I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury. It stars Maureen Stapleton and Edward Herrmann and was directed by Noel Black. Bradbury's story was originally written as a teleplay in 1962 as " I Sing the Body Electric", an episode of ''The Twilight Zone''. The film was distributed on VHS by Coronet Video. Cast *Maureen Stapleton as Grandmother *Edward Herrmann as Father *Paul Benedict as Guido Fantoccini *Tara Kennedy as Agatha *Robert MacNaughton as Tom *Madeleine Sherwood as Aunt Clara Awards ''The Electric Grandmother'' received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Children's Program, and won a Peabody Award. It has been recognized by Chicago International Children's Film Festival, International Film Festival for Children and Youth, American Film Festival and the Southern California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Sing The Body Electric (The Twilight Zone)
"I Sing the Body Electric" is episode 100 of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone''. The 1962 script was written by Ray Bradbury, and became the basis for his 1969 I Sing the Body Electric (Bradbury), short story of the same name, itself named after an 1855 I Sing the Body Electric (Whitman), Walt Whitman poem. Although Bradbury contributed several scripts to ''The Twilight Zone'', this was the only one produced. Opening narration Plot Mr. Rogers, the widowed father of three children (Anne, Karen, and Tom), is dealing with the departure of Aunt Nedra, who says the children are too hard to manage. The father takes the kids to a factory, Facsimile Ltd., to select a new robotic grandmother. When she arrives, young Tom and Karen quickly are smitten by the magical "grandmother." But older daughter Anne will not accept her; "Grandma" reminds her too much of her own mother, who died and left her a bitter young girl. Anne tries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV Series)
''The Twilight Zone'' (marketed as ''Twilight Zone'' for its final two seasons) is an American science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964. Each episode presents a stand-alone story in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone," often with a surprise ending and a moral. Although predominantly science-fiction, the show's paranormal and Kafkaesque events leaned the show towards fantasy and horror. The phrase "twilight zone," inspired by the series, is used to describe surreal experiences. The series featured both established stars and younger actors who would become much better known later. Serling served as executive producer and head writer; he wrote or co-wrote 92 of the show's 156 episodes. He was also the show's host and narrator, delivering monologues at the begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times Book Review
''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. The offices are located near Times Square in New York City. Overview The ''New York Times'' has published a book review section since October 10, 1896, announcing: "We begin today the publication of a Supplement which contains reviews of new books ... and other interesting matter ... associated with news of the day." In 1911, the review was moved to Sundays, on the theory that it would be more appreciatively received by readers with a bit of time on their hands. The target audience is an intelligent, general-interest adult reader. The ''Times'' publishes two versions each week, one with a cover price sold via subscription, bookstores and newsstands; the other with no cover price included as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F&SF
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy fiction magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fantasy companion to Spivak's existing mystery title, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''. The first issue was titled ''The Magazine of Fantasy'', but the decision was quickly made to include science fiction as well as fantasy, and the title was changed correspondingly with the second issue. ''F&SF'' was quite different in presentation from the existing science fiction magazines of the day, most of which were in pulp magazine, pulp format: it had no interior illustrations, no letter column, and text in a single column format, which in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley (writer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as ''How to Suppress Women's Writing'', as well as a contemporary novel, ''On Strike Against God'', and one children's book, ''Kittatinny''. She is best known for ''The Female Man'', a novel combining utopian fiction and satire, and the story "When It Changed". Background Joanna Russ was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Evarett I. and Bertha (née Zinner) Russ, both teachers. Her family was Jewish. She began creating works of fiction at a very early age. Over the following years she filled countless notebooks with stories, poems, comics and illustrations, often hand-binding the material with thread. As a senior at William Howard Taft High School, Russ was selected as one of the top ten Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners. She graduated from Cornell University, where sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long After Midnight
''Long After Midnight'' is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines ''Planet Stories'', ''Collier's Weekly'', ''Playboy'', ''Esquire'', ''Welcome Aboard'', '' Other Worlds'', ''Cavalier'', ''Gallery'', ''McCall's'', ''Woman's Day'', '' Harper's'', ''Charm'', ''Weird Tales'', ''Eros'', and ''Penthouse''. Contents * "The Blue Bottle" * "One Timeless Spring" * "The Parrot Who Met Papa" * "The Burning Man" * "A Piece of Wood" * "The Messiah" * "G.B.S.-Mark V" * "The Utterly Perfect Murder" * "Punishment Without Crime" * "Getting Through Sunday Somehow" * "Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds" * "Interval in Sunlight" * "A Story of Love" * "The Wish" * "Forever and the Earth" * "The Better Part of Wisdom" * "Darling Adolf" * "The Miracles of Jamie" * "The October Game" * "The Pumpernickel" * "Long After Midnight" * "Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!" Reception ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body Electric
Body Electric may refer to: Literature * ''The Body Electric'', a 1985 book on bioelectromagnetism co-authored by Robert O. Becker * ''The Body Electric'', a 1979 book on Kirlian photography by Thelma Moss * ''The Body Electric'', a 2002 book on cybernetics by James Geary Music * ''Body Electric'' (album), by Steve Roach and Vir Unis, 1999 * "Body Electric", a song by Lana Del Rey from her 2012 EP ''Paradise'' * "The Body Electric", a 1982 song by The Sisters of Mercy The Sisters of Mercy is an English rock band, formed in 1980 in Leeds. After achieving early underground fame there, the band had their commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasin ... * "The Body Electric", a song by Rush from the 1984 album ''Grace Under Pressure'' * "The Body Electric", a song by Hurray for the Riff Raff from the 2014 album '' Small Town Heroes'' See also * "I Sing the Body Electric" (poem), an 1855 poem from ''Leaves o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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