Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1

Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1
Ray Douglas Bradbury

One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451.In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them ‘Homecoming’, ‘Veldt’, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ and ‘The Long Rain’.Join an ill-fated crew of astronauts pushed to the brink of insanity by the incessant and highly corrosive rain on Venus, a high-tech virtual reality playroom that comes to life with terrible consequences, and a safari company offering tours for the wealthy back in time to the prehistoric era to stalk and kill dinosaurs, resulting in the present they return to being irrevocably altered.This collection is a rare treasure trove of wonder; as apprehensive about technology and the fate of humanity as it is elegiaic of its irrepressible progress. Each story presents an enlightening and poetic facet of Bradbury’s writing, every one as relevant now as when it was first written.

Ray Bradbury StoriesVolume 1

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Copyright © 1980 Ray Bradbury Enterprises / A California Corporation

Copyright 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980 by Ray Bradbury.

Copyright renewed 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 by Ray Bradbury.

Originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

‘The Coffin’ was originally published in Dime Mystery. Copyright 1947 by Popular Publications. ‘The Man Upstairs’ was originally published in Harper’s magazine. Copyright 1947 by Harper & Brothers. ‘Punishment Without Crime’ was originally published in Other Worlds. Copyright 1950 by Other Worlds. ‘The Long Rain’, ‘Frost and Fire’, and ‘The Blue Bottle’ were originally published in Planet Stories. Copyright 1946, 1950 by Love Romances Publishing Company, Inc. ‘The City’ was originally published in Startling Stories, Copyright 1950 by Better Publications, Inc. “Kaleidoscope” was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Copyright 1949 by Standard Magazines.

Most of the stories in this book were previously published in the UK in the following: The Illustrated Man, first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1952, and then by Grafton 1977, Flamingo Modern Classics 1995, Voyager Classics 2002, The Martian Chronicles, first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1951 under the title Silver Locusts, Corgi 1956, Grafton 1977 publication also entitled Silver Locusts, published by Flamingo 1995; R is for Rocket, first published in Great Britain by Rupert-Hart Davis Ltd 1968; Machineries of Joy, first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1966, and by Grafton 1977; S is for Space, first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1968; Twice 22 (comprised of stories from Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine for Melancholy) first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1953; Fahrenheit 451, first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1954 and by Grafton 1976, by Flamingo 1993, and by Voyager Classics 2001; I Sing the Body Electric! first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1970, Corgi 1971, and Grafton 1991; Dandelion Wine, published by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1957, Corgi 1965 and Grafton 1977; Long After Midnight first published in Great Britain by Hart-Davis MacGibbon 1977; October Country (containing some stories published in Dark Carnival) first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1953, New English Library 1963. Some stories also published in the United States in the following: American Mercury; Arkham Sampler; Charm; Collier’s; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine; Eros; Esquire; Famous Fantastic Mysteries; alaxy; Harper’s; MacLean’s; Mademoiselle; Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Marvel Science Fiction; McCall’s; Penthouse; Planet Stories; Playboy; Sai nt Detective; Saturday Evening Post; Seventeen; Shenandoah; Star Science Fiction Stories #3; Startling Stories; Super Science Fiction Stories; Thrilling Wonder Stories; Today; and Weird Tales.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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Contents

Cover (#ua604795e-2be7-5469-a252-b82cae199b01)

Title Page (#u44686cf5-659d-5a0a-8a5d-b3217a43b439)

Copyright (#uf2a03fea-b9df-55a4-9559-589631745103)

Drunk, and in Charge of a Bicycle: An Introduction by Ray Bradbury (#u6afad4d4-8955-53dd-948c-921e0914b765)

The Night (#u6f2e45a4-7998-5bec-9882-c79fded82493)

Homecoming (#u788e1765-a5e6-5365-a2a6-5f68f429c7c8)

Uncle Einar (#u08af4d3c-5a13-5788-8b3e-e8acd0f037a9)

The Traveler (#ub6ccde31-d529-5943-a715-6176938892f6)

The Lake (#uec898d10-b96e-5baf-9780-35aafdf1da95)

The Coffin (#u2fa69ccb-8d5a-5f55-a1af-86c05410d329)

The Crowd (#u1fe51c0d-f97a-56bc-9d98-694c79b8516a)

The Scythe (#u24c10ca8-1226-5f93-aab6-b3f3e7f8149d)

There Was an Old Woman (#u526e1f5e-e24f-5d2f-9e6e-a2a1927f59c2)

There Will Come Soft Rains (#u7b8493ca-c764-5f95-8fb4-900682ca2f25)

Mars Is Heaven (#u8fc0990c-b2ee-5405-ad22-b638cee3623c)

The Silent Towns (#u42719fe9-a9c0-5e92-8e11-b7e90c3e4062)

The Earth Men (#u2efc9176-993c-52ac-b932-a5615ce4b151)

The Off Season (#uf5f55032-686a-58ac-b2ef-33736302ee33)

The Million-Year Picnic (#ucf20577c-511e-599b-9867-63c8d88fe545)

The Fox and the Forest (#u424aa70e-d6cf-5f7f-9eb1-02e274527fcc)

Kaleidoscope (#u998ad8ee-b401-5080-aed2-c4d21eacc3a0)

The Rocket Man (#ua43141c4-e8b7-59ac-b98a-4ed469bfacab)

Marionettes, Inc. (#u817a0986-da9f-56da-a9bd-258acb0e5943)

No Particular Night or Morning (#udb391857-360b-5780-81a3-a3957e4a43bf)

The City (#u90183fa7-45d5-5878-ac5c-d156af17dc06)

The Fire Balloons (#u7199869d-6846-5eb9-a09e-54e673dba339)

The Last Night of the World (#u3b62f1c5-d11f-5b05-bb80-adca74e02661)

The Veldt (#litres_trial_promo)

The Long Rain (#litres_trial_promo)

The Great Fire (#litres_trial_promo)

The Wilderness (#litres_trial_promo)