Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2

Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2
Ray Douglas Bradbury

A scintillating collection of stories from the master of science fiction.Since the beginning of his career in the 1940s, Ray Bradbury has become synonymous with great science fiction from the pulp comic books of his early work to his adaptations for television, stage and screen and most notably for his masterpiece, ‘Fahrenheit 451’.Bradbury has done a rare thing; to capture both the popular and literary imagination. Within these pages the reader will be transported to foreign and extraordinary worlds, become transfixed by visions of the past, present, and future and be left humbled and inspired by one of most absorbing and engaging writers of this century, and the last.This is the second of two volumes offering the very best of his short stories including 'The Garbage Collector', ‘The Machineries of Joy’ and ‘The Toynbee Convector’.

Ray Bradbury Stories

Volume 2

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A hardcover edition of this book was first published in the USA in 2003 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Copyright © 2003 by Ray Bradbury

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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.

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Dedication (#ulink_b859b7eb-8de6-53c2-891a-fd23d24d7e25)

WITH LOVE TO MY THREE SAMUELS:

Number One, in the past,

SAMUEL HINKSTON BRADBURY, my grandfather.

Number Two, in the present,

SAMUEL HANDLEMAN, my grandson.

Number Three, in the future,

SAM WELLER, who is writing my life.

Contents

Cover (#u1236d9ab-82f1-5c42-ac0f-074ada116f6a)

Title Page (#u10c38477-5a99-519f-b9cb-2d86614a79c1)

Copyright (#uc1aa25c9-8abe-52f6-8d00-750be2795670)

Dedication (#u7be53ae3-5508-57a8-b823-33c8c87763ec)

Introduction (#u4d200d47-d1fd-57c0-a58b-0a408a45c244)

The Whole Town’s Sleeping (#u3c4c6f0d-7bd9-5e94-991e-587214ae07e5)

The Rocket (#u6818a2cd-8a67-5115-8a76-6e3c7c4765e0)

Season of Disbelief (#ucec716b9-bb9d-50e0-bcd1-48e3d5045016)

And the Rock Cried Out (#u811c9fd9-d8d2-549a-83d3-a24eb2451444)

The Drummer Boy of Shiloh (#u8be1ef4a-1d35-50e9-9546-7c252088f91a)

The Beggar on O’Connell Bridge (#u243fd480-b29a-5d04-a1b1-3fd092c295c5)

The Flying Machine (#uc38f6d90-e392-546f-b736-7ac9f13a69ce)

Heavy-Set (#uee7d781a-4040-545b-b035-6703fb7ac0ac)

The First Night of Lent (#u92cec584-cb98-52f8-8884-8372bbca3005)

Lafayette, Farewell (#u7e5cbc6c-74d0-5214-9610-d779a59d5c43)

Remember Sascha? (#u93c6e37a-5308-5c9b-bed3-c21b801f41ce)

Junior (#u20ad3db7-279d-500e-b9c5-ff3222c0fcfd)

That Woman on the Lawn (#u3ec3d5de-1017-5f8a-ae27-6f4ed0e0074f)

February 1999: Ylla (#u7ab9d485-585a-5173-a804-c0008085dce0)

Banshee (#u22ffc73b-3b1e-506b-8445-5defaab9bd13)

One for His Lordship, and One for the Road! (#ucf8960a1-07f4-535d-a2d0-1fa596dc1004)

The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair (#u34d5e96f-863c-55c6-ae4c-f9394397b825)

Unterderseaboat Doktor (#uab3d6ba9-432e-5129-868f-d4c23444d0e1)