Ray Bradbury

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy. Time travellers…dark carnivals…living automata…and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Ray Bradbury Theater, including the tale Bradbury called ‘one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written’. Is it murder to destroy a robot if it looks and speaks and thinks and feels like a human being? Can a ventriloquist be incriminated by the testimony of his own dummy? Can a time traveller prevent his younger self from killing the woman they both loved? And can the survivor of a pair of Siamese twins investigate his own brother's murder? No other writer has ever rivalled the imagination and narrative gifts of Ray Bradbury, and the 20 unforgettable stories in this collection demonstrate this singular writer's extraordinary range, influence and emotional power.

Planet Stories was one of the better known Golden Age science fiction magazines. It was in its pages that Philip K. Dick first appeared. Planet Stories specialized in Space Opera and Sword and Sorcery fiction. Collected here in this massive edition are 19 stories from its pages totaling more than five hundred pages. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs Included here are: Phantom Out of Time by Nelson S. Bond Thralls of the Endless Night by Leigh Brackett War-Gods of the Void by Henry Kuttner Expedition to Pluto by Fletcher Pratt and Laurence Manning World of Mockery by Sam Moskowitz Prison Planet by Bob Tucker Message From Mars by Clifford D. Simak Stranger from Space by Hannes Bok Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman Phantom of the Seven Stars by Ray Cummings The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown Assignment on Venus by Carl Jacobi Grifters' Asteroid by H. L. Gold Asteroid of the Damned by Dirk Wylie The Mercurian by Frank Belknap Long he Planet That Time Forgot by Donald A. Wollheim Prey of the Space Falcon by Wilbur S. Peacock Quest of Thig by Basil Wells The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury

Planet Stories was one of the better known Golden Age science fiction magazines. It was in its pages that Philip K. Dick first appeared. Planet Stories specialized in Space Opera and Sword and Sorcery fiction. Collected here in this massive edition are 19 stories from its pages totaling more than five hundred pages. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Publishing Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs Included here are: Phantom Out of Time by Nelson S. Bond Thralls of the Endless Night by Leigh Brackett War-Gods of the Void by Henry Kuttner Expedition to Pluto by Fletcher Pratt and Laurence Manning World of Mockery by Sam Moskowitz Prison Planet by Bob Tucker Message From Mars by Clifford D. Simak Stranger from Space by Hannes Bok Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman Phantom of the Seven Stars by Ray Cummings The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown Assignment on Venus by Carl Jacobi Grifters' Asteroid by H. L. Gold Asteroid of the Damned by Dirk Wylie The Mercurian by Frank Belknap Long he Planet That Time Forgot by Donald A. Wollheim Prey of the Space Falcon by Wilbur S. Peacock Quest of Thig by Basil Wells The Monster Maker by Ray Bradbury

Their orders were simple. Capture the dread Space Pirate Gunther and bring him in. But once their ship crashed onto an asteroid leaving the two men with an hour of air each, one gun, a news-real camera, and their wits to work with their chance at success wasn't looking very good.

Blast off to adventure with this golden age space opera story. Their orders were simple. Capture the dread Space Pirate Gunther and bring him in. But once their ship crashed onto an asteroid leaving the two men with an hour of air each, one gun, a news-real camera, and their wits to work with their chance at success wasn't looking very good.

La novela m s c lebre de Ray Bradbury, una historia de un sombr o y horroroso futuro. Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel se enciende y arde. Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que est n prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mec nico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyecci n hipod rmica, escoltado por helic pteros, est preparado para rastrear a los disidentes que a n conservan y leen libros. Como 1984, de George Orwell, como Un mundo feliz, de Aldous Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 describe una civilizaci n occidental esclavizada por los medios, los tranquilizantes y el conformismo. La visi n de Bradbury es asombrosamente prof tica: pantallas de televisi n que ocupan paredes y exhiben folletines interactivos; avenidas donde los coches corren a 150 kil metros por hora persiguiendo a peatones; una poblaci n que no escucha otra cosa que una ins pida corriente de m sica y noticias transmitidas por unos diminutos auriculares insertados en las orejas. Fahrenheit 451 es el m s convincente de todos los infiernos conformistas. Kingsley AmisENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFahrenheit 451: The temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Guy Montag is a firefighter and the job of a firefighter is to burn books, which are forbidden because they are a cause of discord and suffering. The Fire Department's Mechanical Hound, armed with a lethal hypodermic injection, escorted by helicopters, is prepared to track down dissidents who still keep and read books. Like George Orwell's 1984, like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 describes a Western civilization enslaved by the media, tranquilizers and conformism. Bradbury's vision is astonishingly prescient: television screens occupying walls and displaying interactive pamphlets; avenues where cars run at 150 kilometers per hour chasing pedestrians; a population that listens to nothing but an insipid stream of music and news transmitted by tiny headphones inserted into the ears." Fahrenheit 451 is the most convincing of all conformist hells." Kingsley Amis

Collected here in this massive one hundred story anthology are more than three hundred thousand words of world class science fiction, fantasy, and horror by some of the greatest writers the field has ever known. Hours and hours of reading enjoyment await Jackie Sees a Star by Marion Zimmer Bradley All Cats are Gray by Andre Norton Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore Travel Diary by Alfred Bester Pythias by Frederik Pohl The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn The Sound of Silence by Barbara Constant The Intruder by Emil Petaja An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse Longevity by Therese Windser The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith Of Time and Texas by William F. Nolan Native Son by Thelma Hamm Evans Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard Small World by William F. Nolan Nightmare on the Nose by Evelyn E. Smith Collector's Item by Robert F. Young Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Doorstep by Keith Laumer The Jovian Jest by Lilith Lorraine Dream World by R. A. Lafferty Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc The Big Engine by Fritz Leiber Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov The One and the Many by Milton Lesser The Glory of Ippling by Helen M. Urban 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay No Strings Attached by Lester del Rey Zeritsky's Law by Ann Griffith Navy Day by Harry Harrison The Undersea Tube by Lucile Taylor Hansen Probability by Louis Trimble No Shield from the Dead by Gordon R. Dickson I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner Never Stop to Pat a Kitten by Miriam Allen deFord More than Shadow by Dorothy Quick The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul Anderson The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson The Vampire of Wembley by Edgar Wallace Riya's Foundling by Algis Budrys Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper Robots of the World Arise by Mari Wolf The Worlds of If by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Adventurer by C. M. Kornbluth Decision by Frank M. Robinson The Waker Dreams by Richard Matheson A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker One-Shot by James Blish The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton Common Denominator by John D. MacDonald The Natives by Katherine MacLEAN The Lonely by Judith Merril The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Food for Friendship by E. C. Tubb Half Around Pluto by Manly Wade Wellman The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson The Next Logical Step by Ben Bova They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip Jos Farmer Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg Hot Planet by Hal Clement The Tenth Scholar by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury Strain by L. Ron Hubbard The Time of Cold by Mary Carlson The Customs Lounge by Annie Proulx I, Executioner by Ted White and Terry Carr and many more

Collected here in this massive one hundred story anthology are more than three hundred thousand words of world class science fiction, fantasy, and horror by some of the greatest writers the field has ever known. Hours and hours of reading enjoyment await Jackie Sees a Star by Marion Zimmer Bradley All Cats are Gray by Andre Norton Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore Travel Diary by Alfred Bester Pythias by Frederik Pohl The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn The Sound of Silence by Barbara Constant The Intruder by Emil Petaja An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse Longevity by Therese Windser The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith Of Time and Texas by William F. Nolan Native Son by Thelma Hamm Evans Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard Small World by William F. Nolan Nightmare on the Nose by Evelyn E. Smith Collector's Item by Robert F. Young Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Doorstep by Keith Laumer The Jovian Jest by Lilith Lorraine Dream World by R. A. Lafferty Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc The Big Engine by Fritz Leiber Misbegotten Missionary by Isaac Asimov The Glory of Ippling by Helen M. Urban Where There's Hope by Jerome Bixby 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Disqualified by Charles L. Fontenay No Strings Attached by Lester del Rey Zeritsky's Law by Ann Griffith Say Hello for Me by Frank W. Coggins Navy Day by Harry Harrison The Undersea Tube by Lucile Taylor Hansen Probability by Louis Trimble No Shield from the Dead by Gordon R. Dickson I'll Kill You Tomorrow by Helen Huber The Secret of Kralitz by Henry Kuttner Never Stop to Pat a Kitten by Miriam Allen deFord More than Shadow by Dorothy Quick The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul Anderson The Piebald Hippogriff by Karen Anderson Riya's Foundling by Algis Budrys Ask a Foolish Question by Robert Sheckley Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper Robots of the World Arise by Mari Wolf The Worlds of If by Stanley G. Weinbaum The Adventurer by C. M. Kornbluth Decision by Frank M. Robinson The Waker Dreams by Richard Matheson A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker One-Shot by James Blish McILVAINE'S Star by August Derleth The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton Common Denominator by John D. MacDonald The Natives by Katherine MacLEAN The Lonely by Judith Merril The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi Food for Friendship by E. C. Tubb Half Around Pluto by Manly Wade Wellman Project Hush by William Tenn Time Enough At Last by Lynn Venable Bride of the Dark One by Florence Verbell Brown The Cosmic Express by Jack Williamson The Next Logical Step by Ben Bova They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip Jos Farmer Shandy by Ron Goulart Tight Squeeze by Dean C. Ing Extracts from the Galactick Almanack by Laurence Janifer and many more

Douglas Spaulding valmistautuu viettämään elämänsä kahdettatoista kesää kotikaupungissaan. Green Townin suvi on täynnä ihmeitä ja seikkailuja, riemua ja jännitystä, mutta myös suruja ja synkempiä hetkiä. Kaupunkilaisten värikkäät tempaukset, kuten onnellisuuskoneen rakentaminen, noitakeinot naisjaoston puheenjohtajakisassa ja jälleensyntyneiden rakkaustarina, taltioituvat nuoren pojan mieleen sekä myös vaarin valmistamaan voikukkaviiniin, josta ne voi jonain päivänä taas palauttaa muistoihin. Voikukkaviiniä on science fictionin ja novellistiikan mestarin Ray Bradburyn henkilökohtaisin tarinakokoelma. Kirja pohjautuu hänen omiin lapsuudenkokemuksiinsa, mutta kertomuksia höystävät myös fantastiset ja absurdit elementit. Voikukkaviiniä loihtii kesän tuoksut, maut ja tunnelmat lukijan eteen elävästi vuodenajasta riippumatta. Bradburyn tarinat voi lukea sekä romaanina että novellikokoelmana.

Rej Bredberi - velikij master pera, klassik mirovoj literatury i zhivaja legenda fantastiki. Ego knigi uzhe bolee poluveka chitajut milliony ljudej vo vsem mire. Bredberi namnogo bolshe, chem pisatel-fantast -tvorchestvo ego mozhno otnesti k "vysokoj", vnezhanrovoj literature. Izvestnejshie povesti i sotni rasskazov, jarkikh i iskrennikh, prinesli Reju Bredberi slavu ne tolko rasskazchika udivitelnykh istorij, no i filosofa, myslitelja, psikhologa. Grintaunskij avtobiograficheskij tsikl o lete, o detstve, o prikljuchenijakh. Gde mozhno provesti odno leto v kompanii s dvenadtsatiletnimi malchishkami, leto, kogda kazhdyj den sovershajutsja udivitelnye otkrytija, leto, napolnennoe sobytijami radostnymi i pechalnymi, zagadochnymi i trevozhnymi.

Rej Bredberi - pisatel, kotoryj smeshal fantastiku s velikoj, vselenskoj pechalju. V svoikh proizvedenijakh pisatel podnimaet temy dobra i zla, ljubvi, odinochestva i poter. Ego "Marsianskie khroniki" - eto povestvovanie o bezzhalostnosti i ogranichennosti zemljan, ob ikh nenasytnosti i gotovnosti istrebit drug druga, o bezdushii i zhestokosti, neterpimosti i nezhelanii slyshat drugikh. No eto ne mozhet prodolzhatsja beskonechno. I tekhnicheskij progress ikh ne spasjot. V kontse kontsov, oni sami sebja nakazhut. No est u Bredberi i problesk nadezhdy na vozrozhdenie novogo mira, razumnoj, sozidatelnoj tsivilizatsii. Eto proizvedenie zavojovyvaet chitatelej pokolenie za pokoleniem, podchinjaja ikh svoej magicheskoj pritjagatelnostju i kazhdyj raz otkryvaja na svoikh stranitsakh chto-to novoe. Tekst sokraschjon i adaptirovan. Uroven B1.

La historia de un sombr o y aterrador futuro Guy Montag pertenece a una extra a brigada de bomberos. Su misi n, parad jicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante m s de 10 a os, y siempre le gust su trabaj . Nunca cuestion nada --ni la emoci n de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder-- hasta que conoci a una ni a de diecisiete a os que le mostr un pasado en el que la gente no ten a miedo y a un profesor que le habl de un futuro en el que la gente podr a ser libre. Y al fin Montag comprendi lo que ten a que hacer. Fahrenheit 451, la novela m s c lebre del maestro de la ciencia ficci n, nos presenta un futuro perturbador: un mundo en el que los libros y la lectura est n prohibidos. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en ese mundo est prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en ese mundo hay que ser feliz a la fuerza. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

From "one of science fiction's grand masters" (Library Journal), a new reissue of Ray Bradbury's The Toynbee Convector: a collection of twenty-two stories, including the continuing saga of H. G. Well's time traveler and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy. The world's only time traveler finally reveals his secret. An old man's memory of World War I conjures ghostly parachutists. An Egyptian mummy turns up in an Illinois cornfield. A lonely Martian prepares to face his doom. From the iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, The Toynbee Convector is a true cause for celebration. The twenty-two classic tales in this special Ray Bradbury collection begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in common thoughts and memories, and then take off into the farthest reaches of the imagination. "The fiction creates the truth in this lovely exercise in utopian dreaming" (Publishers Weekly)--stunning stories that could only come from the brilliant mind of Ray Bradbury.

La adaptaci n gr fica oficial de la novela cl sica de Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 cuenta la historia de un sombr o y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extra a brigada de bomberos cuya misi n, parad jicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios, sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el pa s de Montag est terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el pa s de Montag est prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el pa s de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza... Tim Hamilton convierte en imagen la visionaria distop a ideada por Ray Bradbury a mediados del siglo pasado, sin saberlo mas quiz intuyendo la vigencia de una advertencia imperecedera. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONNow an HBO Original Movie starring Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther), Sofia Boutella (Star Trek: Beyond), and Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water).-An Eisner Award Nominee Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden. In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature. Including an original foreword by Ray Bradbury and fully depicting the brilliance and force of his canonic and beloved masterwork, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature.

Guy Montag är ingen vanlig brandman. Han tänder eldar i stället för att släcka dem. På statens uppdrag bränner han böcker, alla gamla tryckta böcker som kan kallas »litteratur« och som därigenom förväntas kunna få folk att spåra ur och inbilla sig att de kan förändra världen. Han bränner både böckerna och husen där han hittat dem - ibland även människorna i husen, om de knusslar. Sedan åker han hem till sin hustru Mildred, som tillbringar dagarna framför TV:n. Men så lär Guy känna Clarisse, en sjuttonårig granne, som får honom att börja tänka och han inser vilken kraft som finns i egna, självständiga tankar och vilken hjälp han får från den av alla så hatade litteraturen. Omgivningen registrerar hur Guy går från att vara en statens trogne tjänare till att bli statens fiende. Ray Bradburys Fahrenheit 451, betitlad efter den temperatur vid vilken papper självantänder, är en av världslitteraturens största klassiker i den dystopiska genren, en roman vars budskap i dag känns mer levande och relevant än någonsin. Här i svensk översättning av Siv Nordin. RAY BRADBURY [1920-2012] var en amerikansk författare som skrev 27 romaner och mer än 600 noveller, mestadels i genrerna science fiction och skräck. Hans mest berömda verk är den dystopiska romanen Fahrenheit 451 [1953], mångfaldigt prisbelönt och ständigt omtryckt. Romanen filmatiserades 1966, av François Truffaut, och är nu under produktion som ny, stor TV-serie på HBO, med Michael B. Jordan i en av huvudrollerna.» Briljant. Lika skrämmande som genial. Ray Bradburys uppgörelse med den här galna världen, vilken uppvisar många alarmerande likheter med vår egen, upphör aldrig att fascinera.« | The New York Times

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. `Another indispensable classic' The Times `'Ray Bradbury's gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world' Barack Obama Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

Det här är en ask med berättelser av fyra legendariska science fiction-författare. Här samsas mörka dystopier med förgörande robotkrig, dolda riken och ödesdigra tidsresor - lysande noveller av sci fi-genrens grundare och mästare. Asken innehåller fyra böcker: H. G. Wells - De blindas rikeUrsula K. Le Guin - Ett nytt AtlantisRay Bradbury - Ett dån av åskaPhilip K. Dick - Försvararna"Allra bäst är science fiction i novellform, och därför är det extra roligt när novellförlaget Novellix för sin första science fiction-utgivning har valt fyra av seriens giganter [...] Novellkvartetten speglar bredden i genren ... Philip K Dicks 'Försvararna' från 1953 och Ursula K Le Guins 'Ett nytt Atlantis' från 1975 skulle kunna vara dystopier skrivna i dag, vilket är både märkligt betryggande och ofantligt skrämmande"Dagens Nyheter "Tänk tv-serien "Black mirror" på papper." SydsvenskanNovellix ger ut stora läsupplevelser i litet format! En novell per bok, och alltid med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar.