Second, Bradbury’s legacy isn’t merely a pile of stories lined up like an endless salad bar, but rather a series of collections and novels in a particular sequence, and very much of their time. First, the Library of America, despite often being compared to the French Pleiades series of classics, is really less a matter of institutional canonization than of curation the idea is to present significant works in reasonably accurate annotated editions, not to lecture us on what to read. Two important points, one involving the Library of America (for which I’ve edited a few volumes), and the other involving Bradbury. So the obvious question is, who really needs the two-volume, 1,800-page Ray Bradbury Collection from the Library of America, also edited by Eller? And the answer, I think, tells us something about the most productive ways in which we can read fiction from the past. Eller, the author of a fascinating three-volume biography of Bradbury, has been editing a multivolume critical edition of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, complete with textual variants, commentary, and related nonfiction, and Volume 3, which appeared in 2017, only gets us up to 1945.
For the more scholarly minded, Jonathan R. No one can complain that they’re having a hard time finding Ray Bradbury stories to read… The exhaustive ISFDB lists more than 30 collections published in the current century alone, including the massive Bradbury Stories from 2003, which managed to assemble no fewer than 100 stories without repeating any of the 100 stories that had already appeared in The Stories of Ray Bradbury way back in 1980. Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country, Other Stories, Ray Bradbury ( Library of America 978-1-59853-728-4, $40.00 989pp, hc) October 2022.
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