I Sing the Body Electric (Bradbury) - Definition and Overview

I Sing the Body Electric! (1969) is a Twilight-Zone-ish short story collection by Ray Bradbury, including these stories:

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

• The Terrible Conflagration up at the Place:

• Tomorrow's Child: a woman gives birth to a small blue pyramid.

• 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.

• The Inspired Chicken Motel:

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

• 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 unawilling to accept an Electrical Grandmother as a surrogate for her dead mother, until the Grandmother demonstrates her own immortality. [1] (http://www.unl.edu/Price/WCM/television/twilight_zone.html)

• 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: