I Sing the Body Electric

I Sing the Body Electric
Ray Douglas Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.Science fiction, fantasy, small town life, and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and supernatural, the past, the present , and the future.This book contains eighteen short stories from one of the genre's master storytellers.

I Sing the Body Electric!

And Other Stories

Ray Bradbury

Copyright

HarperVoyager an imprint of

HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk

First published by Alfred A. Knopf 1969

First published in Great Britain by Hart-Davis 1970

Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1969

“Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby’s Is a Friend of Mine” (originally titled “Charlie Is My Darling”) and “I Sing the Body Electric!” (originally titled “The Beautiful One Is Here”) first appeared in McCall’s magazine. “The Cold Wind and the Warm” was originally published in Harper’s magazine. “The Women” was originally published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries. “The Tombling Day” was originally published in Shenandoah. “Heavy-Set,” “The Man in the Rorschach Suit,” “Lost City of Mars,” and “Downwind from Gettysburg” were originally published in Playboy magazine “The Kilimanjaro Device” (originally titled “The Kilimanjaro Machine”) first appeared in Life magazine. “Henry IX” (originally titled “A Final Sceptre, a Lasting Crown”) first appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction. “The Blue Bottle” Copyright 1950 by Love Romances Publishing Inc. “Punishment Without Crime” Copyright 1950 by Other Worlds. “One Timeless Spring” first appeared in Collier’s. “A Piece of Wood” first appeared in Esquire. “The Utterly Perfect Murder” (originally titled “My Perfect Murder”) and “The Parrot Who Met Papa” first appeared in Playboy magazine. “Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds” first appeared in Gallery.

Ray Bradbury asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Ebook Edition © December 2013 ISBN: 9780007541706

Version: 2018-02-27

Dedication

This book, a bit late in the

day, but with admiration, affection,

and friendship, is for

NORMAN CORWIN.

Epigraph

I Sing the Body Electric;

The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;

They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,

And discorrupt them,

And charge them full with the charge of the Soul.

WALT WHITMAN

Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

The Kilimanjaro Device

The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place

Tomorrow’s Child

The Women

The Inspired Chicken Motel

Downwind from Gettysburg

Yes, We’ll Gather at the River

The Cold Wind and the Warm

Night Call, Collect

The Haunting of the New

I Sing the Body Electric!

The Tombling Day

Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby’s Is a Friend of Mine

Heavy-Set

The Man in the Rorschach Shirt