Ray Bradbury
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print. The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along...
Author
Language
English
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Description
On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door -- and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge: twin lists of the Tinseltown dead and soon-to-be dead...
11) Farewell summer
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the final days of summer, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his friends declare war on the stuffy older set of their community, an effort for which the boys plot to stop the courthouse building clock as a means of staying young forever.
12) Fahrenheit 451
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Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.
14) Fahrenheit 451
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada --ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder-- hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un pasado en el que la gente no tenía miedo...
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-508
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The new collection contains 20 stories, including classics of the genre and rare, little-known gems such as the title story, Bradbury's first published mystery. A number of the stories were adapted by the author for his popular TV series, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and fans of Bradbury's work will recognize his touch with crime stories about circus sideshow performers and ventriloquists' dummies, sunken cathedrals, time travelers, and robots that look...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The author of such classic works as "Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man", and "The Martian Chronicles", Ray Bradbury is one of this century's great sci-fi writers. This collection features 31 of Bradbury's most arresting tales, ranging from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the human heart.
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him. Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Ray Bradbury was long the most influential sci-fi writer in the world, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man But he also lived a fascinating life outside the parameters of sci-fi, and was a masterful raconteur of his own story, as he reveals in his wide-ranging and in-depth final interview with his acclaimed biographer, Sam Weller. After moving to Los Angeles, he became...
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, he elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for...
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