I Sing the Body Electric (Bradbury)

Infobox Book
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author = Ray Bradbury
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction Short stories
publisher = Knopf
release_date = 1969
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 305 pp.
isbn = ISBN 0-394-42985-0 (reprint)
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"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

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. [ [http://www.unl.edu/Price/WCM/television/twilight_zone.html Twilight Zone: 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"

In popular culture

* The title story, "I Sing the Body Electric!" was adapted into a "Twilight Zone" episode of the same name, with Bradbury as writer of the teleplay.
*It was also adapted as a television movie "The Electric Grandmother" starring Maureen Stapleton.
* The Canadian band, Rush, produced a song titled "The Body Electric" on their album "Grace Under Pressure".

Notes

References

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title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition
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