THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, THE OCTOBER COUNTRY and Other Stories

by Ray Bradbury

Library of America
(www.loa.org)
2022, 979 pages, $40

ISBN 978-1-59853-728-4

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Editor Jonathan R. Eller provides a most interesting list of footnotes to these tales, starting on Page 937, along with a chronology of Bradbury’s life (Page 919).

I loved the footnote on Page 978, about lapis lazuli, the semiprecious stone on King Tutankhamen’s death mask, and what Ray’s mother had to say about King Tut in a long-ago conversation with her young son. Hilarious and classic!