I Sing the Body Electric!
by Ray Bradbury
First published 1969 · English · 305 pages
- Short stories
- Science fiction
A collection of short stories from Bradbury's later career. They blend science fiction, fantasy and domestic drama, and often ask what it means to be human in a world of machines. The title story imagines a mechanical grandmother who comes to care for a motherless family. Other tales visit small towns, strange visitors, memory and the future. The collection is warm, imaginative and reflective, showing his lasting interest in love, loss and wonder.
Quotes
You really talk,” he said.“Compulsive,” I said.”“You’d make a lousy writer,” he said. “I never knew a writer yet who was a good talker.
I’d hate to have you running hell, the lost souls would never get fried!
There’s too much chance for shock. And yet I must tell her the truth. A doctor gets nowhere by lying to his patient.
You’re a has-been that never was. And you’re going to stay that way, spoiled and narcissistic and small and mean and rotten.