12 books by Ray Bradbury
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Overview: Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales–prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outrÉ fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the century’s great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales–prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centuries great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories
The Golden Apples of the Sun
The Fog Horn, The Pedestrian, The April Witch, The Wilderness, The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, Invisible Boy, The Flying Machine, The Murderer, The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind, I See You Never, Embroidery, The Big Black & White Game, A Sound of Thunder, The Great Wide World Over There, Powerhouse, En La Noche, Sun & Shadow, The Meadow, The Garbage Collector, The Great Fire, Hail & Farewell, The Golden Apples of the Sun
S is for Space
Chrysalis, Pillar of Fire, Zero Hour, The Man, Time in Thy Flight, The Pedestrian, Hall and Farewell, Invisible Boy, Come into My Cellar, The Million-Year Picnic, The Screaming Woman, The Smile, Dark Tey Were, and Golden-Eyed, The Trolley, The Flying Machine, Icarus Montgolfier Wright
I Sing the Body Electric
Science fiction, fantasy, small town life, and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and supernatural, the past, the present, and the future.
Contents:
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, 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, Christus Apollo
The Day it Rained Forever
In a ghost town hotel in a burning desert three old men await the January rains – and are visited by a strange musician. A family of colonists on Mars are homesick for Earth. Terrified, they begin to notice that each is undergoing a subtle transformation. A man seeks the forgotten scent of sarsaparilla in his attic – and passes through a window into the lost land of his boyhood. The Day It Rained Forever includes many of Ray Bradbury’s most celebrated stories.
Contents:
The Day it Rained Forever, In a Season of Calm Weather, The Dragon, The End of the Beginning, The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit, Fever Dream, Referent, The Marriage Mender, The Town Where No One Got Off, Icarus Montgolfier Wright, Almost the End of the World, Dark They were and Golden-eyed, The Smile, Here there be Tygers, The Headpiece, Perchance to Dream, The Time of Going Away, The Gift, The Little Mice, The Sunset Harp, A Scent of Sarsaparilla, And the Rock Cried Out, The Strawberry Window
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
Grandmasterof American Letters Ray Bradbury presents the 16 vintage stories and novellasthat informed and prefigured the creation of his dystopian classic, Fahrenheit451. Collecting rare and unknown tales as well as notable early triumphs,A Pleasure to Burn offers an unparalleled window into Bradbury’s creativeprocess, and a unique glimpse at the evolution of one of the greatest works of20th century American literature. Absolutely essential for fans ofBradbury books like Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes,The Illustrated Man, and The Martian Chronicles—and for readersof William Golding, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and other titans ofspeculative fiction—A Pleasure to Burn illuminates the unusual hiddencorners of Bradbury’s expansive imagination, revealing a creative force asvivid and powerful as the hottest burning flame.
From the Dust Returned
They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois — and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and wild; their old ones have survived since before the Sphinx first sank its paws deep in Egyptian sands. And some sleep in beds with lids.
Now the house is being readied in anticipation of the gala homecoming that will gather together the farflung branches of this odd and remarkable family. In the past-midnight stillness can be detected the soft fluttering of Uncle Einars wings. From her realm of sleep, Cecy, the fairest and most special daughter, can feel the approach of many a welcome being — shapeshifter, telepath, somnambulist, vampire — as she flies high in the consciousness of bird and bat.
But in the midst of eager anticipation, a sense of doom pervades. For the world is changing. And death, no stranger, will always shadow this most singular family: Father, arisen from the Earth; Mother, who never sleeps but dreams; A Thousand Times Great Grandmére; Grandfather, who keeps the wildness of youth between his ears.
And the boy who, more than anyone, carries the burden of time on his shoulders: Timothy, the sad and different foundling son who must share it all, remember, and tell…and who, alone out of all of them, must one day age and wither and die.
Green Shadows, White Whale
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic novels, available as an ebook for the first time.
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe’s quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts – Moby Dick – in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming.
But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth impish playwrights, and the boyos at Heeber Finn’s pub. In a land where myth is reality, poetry is plentiful, and life’s misfortunes are always cause for celebration, Green Shadows, White Whale is the grandest tour of Ireland you’ll ever experience – with the irrepressible Ray Bradbury as your enthusiastic guide.
Let’s All Kill Constance
On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge — and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance’s name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood — a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams … and, all too often, to death.
One More for the Road
America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. For more than fifty years he has regaled us with wonders, enchanted us with memories, and startled us with simple truths, enabling us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed.
Now the master treats us to another round — eighteen brand — new stories and seven previously published but never before collected-proof positive that his magic is as potent as ever. Here is a rich elixir distilled from the pungent fruit of experience and imagination, expertly prepared by a superior mixologist whose hand is sure and whose eyes and ears have long taken in the shouting, weeping, carping, reveling life all around him.
Sip the sweet innocence of youth, and the wisdom and folly — of age. Taste the warm mysteries of summer and the bitterness of betrayed loves and abandoned places. This glass overflows with a heady brew that will set your mind spinning and carry you to remarkable locales: a house where time has no boundaries; a movie theater where deconstructed schlock is drunkenly reassembled into art; a faraway planet plagued by an epidemic of sorrow; a wheat field that hides a strangely welcome enemy. The comforts of arguments eternal; the addictive terror of a predawn phone call; the ghosts of dear friends, of errant sons and lost fathers, and of lovers both joyously remembered and never-to-be, are but a few of the ingredients that have gone into Bradbury’s savory cocktail. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations.
One More for the Road is superb refreshment served with wit, heart, and flair by the incomparable Bradbury. This one’s on Ray.
Drink up!
The Halloween Tree
A fast-moving, eerie…tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin’s. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings.
The Lost Bradbury: Forgotten Tales of Ray Bradbury
Imagine having the power to see briefly into the future, or being able to kill someone through a magic candle. Imagine someone playing war like a childhood game and winning, or going to Mars and yet seeing Earth and people from one’s memory. These characters are from a few of Ray Bradbury’s previously uncollected early tales that are gathered in this compilation. In these stories, we get a clear glimpse of the beginnings of this SF master. Mars, even then, is already hostile and unwelcoming to colonizing Earthmen, and yet, at the same time, it is also portrayed as just another planet, with creatures ready to strike back and defend their home. Bradbury’s work, whether science fiction set in space or in Mars, or horror stories and suspense, are always a treat to read. They show psychological depth and sophistication, holding up a mirror to us from which we can see our foibles and strengths, and all the characteristics that make us human.
Where Robot Mice And Robot Men Run Round In Robot Towns
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic poetry collections, available in ebook for the first time.
Ray Bradbury writes of childhood, Melville, and God as well as space launchings and other-world things in this second collection of his poems.
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A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
From the Dust Returned
Green Shadows, White Whale
Let’s All Kill Constance
One More for the Road
The Halloween Tree
The Lost Bradbury: Forgotten Tales of Ray Bradbury
Where Robot Mice And Robot Men Run Round In Robot Towns
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