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Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈ b r æ d b ɛr i / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) 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.
First edition's dust jacket. The Martian Chronicles is a science fiction fix-up novel, published in 1950, by American writer Ray Bradbury that chronicles the exploration and settlement of Mars, the home of indigenous Martians, by Americans leaving a troubled Earth that is eventually devastated by nuclear war .
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. [ 4] It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. [ 5] The novel follows in the viewpoint of Guy Montag, a fireman who soon becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge ...
Plays. (1953) The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men. (1963) The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics. (1965) A Device Out of Time: A One-Act Play. (1966) The Day It Rained Forever: A Comedy in One Act. (1966) The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act. (1972) Leviathan '99: A Drama for the Stage. (1972) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other ...
Science-fiction author and novelist Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was born in Waukegan. Although he moved with his family to the West Coast while still a child, many of his stories are built on his formative years in the town of Waukegan, often called Green Town in his stories, such as Dandelion Wine .
Published in. Collier's. Publication date. June 28, 1952. " A Sound of Thunder " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine on June 28, 1952, and later in Bradbury's 1953 collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. [ 1]
Publication date. August 7, 1951. " The Pedestrian " is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the August 7, 1951 issue of The Reporter by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. [ 1] It is included in the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), but was dropped from later ...
813/.54. LC Class. PS3503.R167 A6 1980. The Stories of Ray Bradbury is an anthology containing 100 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published by Knopf in 1980. The hundred stories, written from 1943 to 1980, were selected by the author himself. Bradbury's work had previously been collected in various compilations, such as ...