Now and Forever

• Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Two never-before-published works of short fiction by one of America’s finest writers. . . . “His stories and novels are part of the American language.”—Washington Post

A half century after he began writing, Ray Bradbury continues to entertain and enlighten us. Now comes this collection of two bewitching novellas that brilliantly reflect the dual sides of his extraordinary talent.

Begun more than 40 years ago as a gift to Katharine Hepburn, Somewhere a Band is Playing is classic Bradbury fantasy, full of romance, nostalgic, and magic, in which a young writer steps off a train at a deserted station, only to discover that the residents of the town are more than a century old. . A science-fictional homage to Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Leviathan 99 is classic Bradbury science fiction, full of insight, pathos, and intelligence, in which the young Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares to go on his first interstellar hunt on a starship commanded by an old, blind captain, and crewed by Quell, a mysterious mind-reading alien being.