Ray Bradbury

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Referent by Ray Bradbury - The Life of a child genius was no fun, but Roby couldn't escape it–until a falling star taught him how to rebel! Roby Morrison fidgeted. Walking in the tropical heat he heard the wet thunder of waves on the shore. There was a green silence on Orthopedic Island. It was the year 1997, but Roby did not care. All around him was the garden where he prowled, all ten years of him. This was Meditation Hour. Beyond the garden...

Ray Bradbury, the master of American science fiction, offers an intriguing answer to the question that all writers dread: Where do you get your ideas? One evening in South Florida, an author is dozing beside a swimming pool in when a stranger interrupts his peace. The newcomer, a self-professed fan and a literary agent of sorts, has a proposal for the author . . . one that may shape the course of literary history. With just a few thousand words, this...

In this story Ray Bradbury takes a hard look at insanity and shines an unblinking light on every culture and age on earth. Why do we lable someone crazy or insane? Because they don't fit in. But is it the insane who must be kept locked away, or is it simply the insane culture they live in that needs to be changed to fit them? Far in the future, humans have the possibility of fitting the delusional emperor Nero to a world that hails him as a god instead...

X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958, in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts,...

Five science fiction short stories from some of the best sci-fi authors of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

Vintage Sci-Fi 11 - 26 Science Fiction Classics from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Voltaire, Philip K. Dick and more • Ring Around the Sun by Isaac Asimov • The Veldt by Ray Bradbury • The Masked World by Jack Williamson • The Small Bears by Gene L. Henderson • Accept No Substitutes by Robert Sheckley • Two Weeks in August by Frank M. Robinson • Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson • Savage Galahad by Bryce Walton • Death-Wish by...

In Bradbury’s unforgettable modern Gothic masterpiece, Something Wicked This Way Comes, something evil arrives in a small Midwestern town on the crest of the wind one autumn night. A “dark carnival” with frightening attractions and supernatural characters sets up stakes. It is up to two thirteen-year-old boys, James Nightshade and William Holloway, to figure out a way to save the souls of the town.

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