I Sing the Body Electric (Bradbury)

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I Sing the Body Electric!

cover of the first edition
Author Ray Bradbury
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction Short stories
Publisher Knopf
Publication date 1969
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 305 pp.
ISBN ISBN 0-394-42985-0 (reprint)

I Sing the Body Electric! is a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book takes its name from a line in the famous Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

Contents

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The collection includes these stories:

  • "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!": a child, Agatha, is unwilling to accept an Electrical Grandmother as a surrogate for her dead mother, until the Grandmother demonstrates her own immortality.[1]
  • "The Tombling Day"
  • "Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby's Is a Friend of Mine"
  • "Heavy-Set"
  • "The Man in the Rorschach Shirt"
  • "Henry the Ninth"
  • "The Lost City of Mars"
  • "Christus Apollo"


[edit] In popular culture

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Twilight Zone: I Sing the Body Electric

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