I Sing the Body Electric!: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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I Sing the Body Electric! (1969) is a Twilight-Zone-ish short story collection by Ray Bradbury, including 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!
  • 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
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The Women draws on ancient mythology and how it interacts with two present-day people. This is the story of the ancient sirens, who call persistently a man they desire, and how his wife tries to keep him from the sea. Inevitably, she fails, and his body floats back to his wife. The story is poetically written from both the perspective of the sirens and the wife.

Downwind from Gettysburg is a sci-fi twist on Lincoln's assassination.

The Kilimanjaro Device is a story about time travel, regret, and one lucky old man.

Tomorrow's Child, in which a woman gives birth to a small blue pyramid.

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