Now and Forever

“This slim volume eloquently displays two sides of the venerated Bradbury with two highly contrasting tales of the fantastic. ‘Somewhere a Band Is Playing’…framed by engagingly wistful lyric verse, this classically appealing Bradbury fantasy is at distinct odds with the prickly and disturbing ‘Leviathan ’99.’ In this space-faring homage to Melville, the dread comet Leviathan takes the whale’s place, and Queequeg becomes the enigmatic telepath Quell…[and] cogently packs Moby Dick‘s psychological complexity into a quarter of the space…Bradbury’s brief summaries of each novella’s decades-long path to completion invoke the extraordinary length of one of the most distinguished careers in speculative fiction.”