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وحيدان على كويكب مهجور، على بُعد مليون ميل في المجهول، مركبتهما الفضائية محطمة بفعل اصطدامها بنيزك، ومخزون الأكسجين على وشك النفاد...
بلا أي وسيلة للعودة إلى الأرض مع نقص الأكسجين، وقلة الطعام، وآلام الجروح الغائرة، تظهر لهما فجأة وحوش فضائية تتربص بهما في الظلام، تلاحقهما في كل خطوة، مستعدة لافتراس أي شيء حي، وحوش تطرح لغزًا حله فيه نجاتهما، مع كل خطوة يقتربان من الهاوية...
هل سيتمكنان من الفرار من هذا الكابوس المرعب؟ أم أن هذا الكويكب اللعين سيكون قبرهما الأخير؟
بلا أي وسيلة للعودة إلى الأرض مع نقص الأكسجين، وقلة الطعام، وآلام الجروح الغائرة، تظهر لهما فجأة وحوش فضائية تتربص بهما في الظلام، تلاحقهما في كل خطوة، مستعدة لافتراس أي شيء حي، وحوش تطرح لغزًا حله فيه نجاتهما، مع كل خطوة يقتربان من الهاوية...
هل سيتمكنان من الفرار من هذا الكابوس المرعب؟ أم أن هذا الكويكب اللعين سيكون قبرهما الأخير؟
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Ray Bradbury
2,560 books25.3k followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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August 22, 2024In tender i want to be crazy lover
just hold me
and click the camera
in funny star war my heart find y
my oxgyn
my whisky breath
y and me fight ugly priats
many monstir and there maker
and click the camera
run and shot the gun
and click
y and me far fron nothing nobudy
just click the camera
at cave we shot our funny joke
many circle of sci made war
and we have funy ours
just click and filmed
we feel our duity
to be funy laugher at face of death
in strang galaxy
y and me just click the camera and filmed
just hold me
and click the camera
in funny star war my heart find y
my oxgyn
my whisky breath
y and me fight ugly priats
many monstir and there maker
and click the camera
run and shot the gun
and click
y and me far fron nothing nobudy
just click the camera
at cave we shot our funny joke
many circle of sci made war
and we have funy ours
just click and filmed
we feel our duity
to be funy laugher at face of death
in strang galaxy
y and me just click the camera and filmed
November 12, 2023
"A million miles from nobody" :D
Single gun + camera, two men, and a lot of pirates on an asteroid fighting (caught on film to watch it later).
Single gun + camera, two men, and a lot of pirates on an asteroid fighting (caught on film to watch it later).
June 1, 2021
I'm starting to think that Bradbury isn't for me.
September 16, 2021
After Interplanetary Patrolman Irish Marnagan and newsreel photographer Click Hathaway spaceship is hit by a meteor and crash-lands on an asteroid. Click and Irish survive the crash, however with their ship is destroyed and with only enough oxygen for sixty minutes how will they survive being marooned on this strange asteroid with only a single gun and a news reel camera to defend themselves?
This was so fun to read so quick paced and cleverly written that it felt there was more to the story. I think Bradbury has a way of allowing us to fill-in the blanks without even realizing it. It would seem to be dated by many due to the talk of newsreels physical film and television but I think that just adds to the character of the story itself. A fun zippy little story that has a cleaver ending.
This was so fun to read so quick paced and cleverly written that it felt there was more to the story. I think Bradbury has a way of allowing us to fill-in the blanks without even realizing it. It would seem to be dated by many due to the talk of newsreels physical film and television but I think that just adds to the character of the story itself. A fun zippy little story that has a cleaver ending.
December 8, 2025
Ray Bradbury is just paying the bills with this one.
Pulpy, fast moving action and none of RB's patented, long-winded, endless digressions into long ceaseless descriptive prose. It's a bit of a relief that, but unfortunately it doesn't leave much originality in this story.
It has its fun elements though. There's a fair bit of personal chemistry going on between Click and Irish. They're fairly likable characters and seem to like each other. Thus, the nicknames.
But just who the heck is Gunther the Pirate, and why the heck should we care about him as a bad guy. He is a seriously underdeveloped character, and it serves to take a lot of the tension out of the story.
So it's readable, just not one of RB's better efforts and not particularly memorable.
Pulpy, fast moving action and none of RB's patented, long-winded, endless digressions into long ceaseless descriptive prose. It's a bit of a relief that, but unfortunately it doesn't leave much originality in this story.
It has its fun elements though. There's a fair bit of personal chemistry going on between Click and Irish. They're fairly likable characters and seem to like each other. Thus, the nicknames.
But just who the heck is Gunther the Pirate, and why the heck should we care about him as a bad guy. He is a seriously underdeveloped character, and it serves to take a lot of the tension out of the story.
So it's readable, just not one of RB's better efforts and not particularly memorable.
January 27, 2026
⭐️⭐️⭐️ GOOD
Explores creation and consequence through a familiar science fiction lens, focusing on the human urge to control what should perhaps be left alone.
What stands out is the story’s concern with responsibility. Creation is framed not as triumph but as burden, raising questions about the cost of invention. The monster itself feels less important than the human impulse behind it.
As a whole, the story offers thoughtful reflection without fully expanding its premise. Its ideas linger, even if the narrative remains restrained.
Explores creation and consequence through a familiar science fiction lens, focusing on the human urge to control what should perhaps be left alone.
What stands out is the story’s concern with responsibility. Creation is framed not as triumph but as burden, raising questions about the cost of invention. The monster itself feels less important than the human impulse behind it.
As a whole, the story offers thoughtful reflection without fully expanding its premise. Its ideas linger, even if the narrative remains restrained.
March 6, 2023
Under orders to capture the infamous pirate Gunther, interplanetary policeman Steven "Irish" Marnagan and filmmaker Click Hathaway crash land on an asteroid after their ship is struck by a meteor. Given the burning hot state of the rock, Click deduces Gunther must have fired it at them. With sixty minutes of air left on the asteroid, Click and Irish find themselves confronted by a gang of grotesque monsters... or do they?
May 10, 2022
A swift read for the fans of author Ray Bradbury. Click and Irish are marooned on the pirate's asteroid. Their only weapons being a single gun and a newsreel camera. Space travel and intrigue await the reader... "A million miles from nobody." With forty more minutes of air, what is in store for our space adventurers? Monsters? Pirates? "Hold it. Until I load my camera again."
May 23, 2021
This was fun schlocky scifi.
February 16, 2024
Short story about a man who's been living in a suspended state for 350 years and is bent on retribution in a world that is much changed. Listened to on The Classic Tales Podcast.
April 28, 2024
Not Bradbury’s best, a bit dated as well.
September 2, 2025
[3 stars]
December 9, 2025
It was a fine story.
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