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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.
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury.A recurring theme throughout the stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people.
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury, and the second book in his Green Town Trilogy.It is about two 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern home, Green Town, Illinois, on October 24.
The Nazi book burnings horrified Ray Bradbury and inspired him to write Fahrenheit 451. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), formed in 1938 to investigate American citizens and organizations suspected of having communist ties, held hearings in 1947 to investigate alleged communist influence in Hollywood movie-making. [17]
(2009) Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2 (2009) We'll Always Have Paris: Stories (2010) A Pleasure To Burn (2010) The Lost Bradbury: Forgotten Tales of Ray Bradbury (2011) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 1, 1938–1943 (2014) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 2, 1943–1944
The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere. The collection was published in numerous editions by Ballantine Books.
Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury set in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois, and serving as the first novel in his Green Town Trilogy. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine", which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet ...
"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]