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Two bewitching new novellas from an incomparable talent.In Somewhere a Band is Playing newsman James Cardiff is lured through poetry and his fascination with a beautiful and enigmatic young woman to Summerton, Arizona, where no children play and the residents never seem to age. He sets out to uncover the town's mysteries before the inevitable arrival of a ruthless destruction.Leviathan '99 reimagines Melville's classic Moby Dick as an interstellar adventure transforming the great whale into a worlds-devouring comet. When astronaut Ishmael Jones joins the crew aboard the Cetus 7 he places his fate in the hands of a relentless madman. In the merciless void the crew will face a divine judgement and an "enemy" wielding the most fearsome weapon of all... Time.More than half a century into his career, Ray Bradbury continues to delight and astound with his grand visions, lyrical prose and provocative thought.