Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1969) Due to harsh and worsening weather, people from the northern hemisphere decide to migrate permanently to warmer climates. The whole of Great Britain will be evacuated shortly, save for a reluctant man who has decided to take care of the now-abandoned land. "The Lost City of Mars" (originally published in Playboy Magazine, January 1967) Tired of the usual luxuries, a rich businessman wants a new adventure: discover the fabled lost city of Mars, Dia-Sao, the City of Doom. He organizes an odd crew and floods the long-dry Martian watercourses, as Mars has never been explored by boat. Indeed, the crew finds the city hidden in a mountain, but what sinister secret in it drove away its original inhabitants in fear? "Christus Apollo" Cantata celebrating the eight day of creation and the promise of the ninth. I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories In 1998, Avon Books published I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories, which includes all the stories from the original collection as well as the following stories from Long After Midnight: "The Blue Bottle" "One Timeless Spring" "The Parrot Who Met Papa" "The Burning Man" "A Piece of Wood" "The Messiah" "G.B.S - Mark V" "The Utterly Perfect Murder" "Punishment Without Crime" "Getting Through Sunday Somehow" "Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds" Reception Joanna Russ reviewed the collection favorably, saying "This is third-rate Bradbury, mostly. It is silly. It totally perverts the quotation from Whitman which it uses in its title. It is very good." Russ noted that Bradbury "presents almost everything either in lyrical catalogue or dramatically, and while the lyrical catalogues sometimes fall flat, the dramatic dialogue hardly ever does. This gives his work tremendous immediate presence." The New York Times also received Body Electric favorably, saying "Whatever the premise, the author retains an enthusiasm for both the natural world and the supernatural that sends a tingle of excitement through even the flimsiest conceit." Adaptations The title story, "I Sing the Body Electric!", was adapted from a 1962 Twilight Zone episode of the same name, which Bradbury had written. It was later adapted as a 1982 television movie, The Electric Grandmother, starring Maureen Stapleton. Notes References External links 1969 short story collections Short story collections by Ray Bradbury