Ray Bradbury, "R Is For Rocket", "S Is For Space", "Forever And The Earth" Signed Limited Edition No. 49 of 100, Slipcased [Very Fine]

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Science fiction, fantasy, small town life and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and the supernatural, the past, the present and the future. There are spaceship and dragons, time machines, new planets, and new science, but it is real people reacting in their personal human ways to the phenomena of a strange world that give these stories the haunting beauty that won critical acclaim for Bradburys books.

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

CONTENTS - R Is for Rocket

• Forewords by Ray Harryhausen & Michael Marshall Smith
• Introduction by Ray Bradbury
• R is for Rocket
• The End of the Begining
• The Fog Horn
• The Rocket
• The Rocket Man
• The Golden Apples of the Sun
• A Sound of Thunder
• The Long Rain
• The Exiles
• Here There Be Tygers
• The Strawberry Window
• The Dragon
• The Gift
• Frost and Fire
• Uncle Einar
• The Time Machine
• The Sound of Summer Running

CONTENTS - S Is for Space

• The Bradbury Chronicles by Arthur C. Clarke
• Perilous Seas in Fairylands Forlorn by Tim Powers
• Introduction by Ray Bradbury
• Chrysalis
• Pillar of Fire
• Zero Hour
• The Man
• Time in Thy Flight
• The Pedestrian
• Hail and Farewell
• Invisible Boy
• The Exiles
• Come into My Cellar
• The Million-Year Picnic
• The Screaming Woman
• The Smile
• Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
• The Trolley
• The Flying Machine
• Icarus Montgolfier Wright

"Forever and the Earth" contains the following stories as originally conceived by Ray Bradbury, Feburary 1, 1966:

• Referent
• The Black Ferris
• Statues Are Best
• The Sea Shell
• The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
• The Veld
• I, Rocket
• Forever and The Earth
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
• The Day It Rained Forever
  
  

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury’s contribution to the literary landscape and our collective imagination made him one of the best-known writers of our time. As a master storyteller, champion of creative freedom, space-age visionary, and guardian of the human heart, he has been embraced by millions across many generations and all walks of life.

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To dive into Ray Bradbury’s work is to experience the complex, wondrous, and often troubling layers of human existence, as well as the possibilities beyond the limits of a small rocky planet called Earth. In fact, his work has literally traveled out of this world — a digitized copy of The Martian Chronicles reached the Red Planet in 2008, aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander.

“The thing that makes me happy is that I know that on Mars, two hundred years from now, my books are going to be read. They’ll be up on dead Mars with no atmosphere. And late at night, with a flashlight, some little boy is going to peek under the covers and read The Martian Chronicles on Mars.”

Enjoy peeling back each remarkable layer of Bradbury’s life, as well as his treasured prose — words that grip as each landscape, conflict, and character emerges from the written page.

 REVIEWS

"I was warped early by Ray Bradbury... As a young teenager, I devoured Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451." - Margaret Atwood

"Without Ray Bradbury, there would be no Stephen King." - Stephen King

"I can imagine all kinds of worlds and places, but I cannot imagine a world without Bradbury." - Neil Gaiman

"His gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world... Ray also understood that our imaginations could be used as a tool for better understanding, a vehicle for change, and an expression of our most cherished values." - President Barack Obama