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A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Ray Bradbury ordered by date of publication.
Sixteen Stories
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73,456 words (4 hours 28 minutes) with a reading ease of 78.55 (fairly easy)
Ray Bradbury is a giant of science fiction and fantasy. His childlike imagination, yearning for Mars, and love of all that is scary, horrible, and mysterious, reverberate throughout modern speculative fiction and our culture as a whole.
He has received countless awards including the Sir Arthur Clark Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, an Emmy Award, and a National Medal of Arts. Along with terrestrial honorary street names, there are many extraterrestrial locations named in Bradbury’s honor such as Bradbury Landing, the landing site of the Mars Curiosity rover.
Some of his first published stories appear in Futuria Fantasia, a fanzine he created when he was 18 years old. All of his stories published in Futuria Fantasia are included in this collection. This collection also includes stories written well into his career, like “Zero Hour,” a story that was later republished in his famous collection The Illustrated Man.
294 pages
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Ray Bradbury ordered by date of publication.
Sixteen Stories
From Standard Ebooks:
73,456 words (4 hours 28 minutes) with a reading ease of 78.55 (fairly easy)
Ray Bradbury is a giant of science fiction and fantasy. His childlike imagination, yearning for Mars, and love of all that is scary, horrible, and mysterious, reverberate throughout modern speculative fiction and our culture as a whole.
He has received countless awards including the Sir Arthur Clark Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, an Emmy Award, and a National Medal of Arts. Along with terrestrial honorary street names, there are many extraterrestrial locations named in Bradbury’s honor such as Bradbury Landing, the landing site of the Mars Curiosity rover.
Some of his first published stories appear in Futuria Fantasia, a fanzine he created when he was 18 years old. All of his stories published in Futuria Fantasia are included in this collection. This collection also includes stories written well into his career, like “Zero Hour,” a story that was later republished in his famous collection The Illustrated Man.
294 pages
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First published August 18, 2021
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About the author
Ray Bradbury
2,561 books25.1k 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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September 18, 2022
ENGLISH: 15 early short stories published by Ray Bradbury long before his best-known works, which began with the publication of his Martian Chronicles in 1950. Of these 15 stories, all but one were published between 1939 and 1948; the last one, in 1951.
I liked best "The monster maker," where two spacemen marooned on an asteroid fight and defeat a terrible pirate and his 85 men with the help of a video camera and the pirate's own weaponry.
"The creatures that time forgot" is the longest and most original story, about some humans who have been marooned on a terrible planet and have evolved to adapt to it. The less original thing in the story is its title, obviously derived from Edgar Rice Burroughs's "The land that time forgot."
In "Rocket summer," published in 1947, (not to be confused with the chapter of the same title in the Martian Chronicles), Bradbury is not so successful predicting the future as in his famous Fahrenheit 451, where he predicted the suffocating current censorship of political correction. In "Summer rocket" he predicts an arrival to the moon much later than what it actually happened (just 22 years away) with horrible ethical problems that never came to be contemplated.
"Pillar of fire," published in 1948, is the story of a vampire in the 24th century. This story is an antecedent to Fahrenheit 451, five years before its publication.
ESPAÑOL: 15 cuentos publicados por Ray Bradbury bastante antes que sus obras más conocidas, que comenzaron con la publicación de sus Crónicas marcianas en 1950. De estos 15 cuentos, todos menos uno se publicaron entre 1939 y 1948; el último, en 1951.
Me gustó "El fabricante de monstruos", en el que dos astronautas varados en un asteroide luchan y vencen a un terrible pirata y sus 85 hombres, con la ayuda de una cámara de video y el armamento del mismo pirata.
"Las criaturas que el tiempo olvidó" es el cuento más largo y original, sobre unos humanos que quedaron abandonados en un planeta terrible y han evolucionado para adaptarse a él. Lo menos original del cuento es su título, que obviamente deriva de "La tierra que el tiempo olvidó" de Edgar Rice Burroughs.
En "El verano del cohete", publicado en 1947 (que no debe confundirse con el capítulo del mismo título en las Crónicas Marcianas), Bradbury no tiene tanto éxito en la predicción del futuro como en su famoso [libro: Fahrenheit 451|13079982], en el que predijo la censura asfixiante actual de la corrección política. En "El verano del cohete" predice que llegaríamos a la luna mucho más tarde de lo que realmente sucedió (estaba sólo a 22 años de distancia) con tremendos problemas éticos que nunca llegaron a plantearse.
"Pilar de fuego", publicada en 1948, habla sobre un vampiro en el siglo 24. Este cuento es un buen antecedente de Fahrenheit 451, cinco años antes de su publicación.
I liked best "The monster maker," where two spacemen marooned on an asteroid fight and defeat a terrible pirate and his 85 men with the help of a video camera and the pirate's own weaponry.
"The creatures that time forgot" is the longest and most original story, about some humans who have been marooned on a terrible planet and have evolved to adapt to it. The less original thing in the story is its title, obviously derived from Edgar Rice Burroughs's "The land that time forgot."
In "Rocket summer," published in 1947, (not to be confused with the chapter of the same title in the Martian Chronicles), Bradbury is not so successful predicting the future as in his famous Fahrenheit 451, where he predicted the suffocating current censorship of political correction. In "Summer rocket" he predicts an arrival to the moon much later than what it actually happened (just 22 years away) with horrible ethical problems that never came to be contemplated.
"Pillar of fire," published in 1948, is the story of a vampire in the 24th century. This story is an antecedent to Fahrenheit 451, five years before its publication.
ESPAÑOL: 15 cuentos publicados por Ray Bradbury bastante antes que sus obras más conocidas, que comenzaron con la publicación de sus Crónicas marcianas en 1950. De estos 15 cuentos, todos menos uno se publicaron entre 1939 y 1948; el último, en 1951.
Me gustó "El fabricante de monstruos", en el que dos astronautas varados en un asteroide luchan y vencen a un terrible pirata y sus 85 hombres, con la ayuda de una cámara de video y el armamento del mismo pirata.
"Las criaturas que el tiempo olvidó" es el cuento más largo y original, sobre unos humanos que quedaron abandonados en un planeta terrible y han evolucionado para adaptarse a él. Lo menos original del cuento es su título, que obviamente deriva de "La tierra que el tiempo olvidó" de Edgar Rice Burroughs.
En "El verano del cohete", publicado en 1947 (que no debe confundirse con el capítulo del mismo título en las Crónicas Marcianas), Bradbury no tiene tanto éxito en la predicción del futuro como en su famoso [libro: Fahrenheit 451|13079982], en el que predijo la censura asfixiante actual de la corrección política. En "El verano del cohete" predice que llegaríamos a la luna mucho más tarde de lo que realmente sucedió (estaba sólo a 22 años de distancia) con tremendos problemas éticos que nunca llegaron a plantearse.
"Pilar de fuego", publicada en 1948, habla sobre un vampiro en el siglo 24. Este cuento es un buen antecedente de Fahrenheit 451, cinco años antes de su publicación.
June 26, 2024
Some of Bradbury's darkest stories.
February 16, 2025
The Pendulum, The creatures that time forgot and The Pillar of Fire were my favorites.
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