Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine" which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet magazine. The title …

As Harry Bittering and his family, new colonists to Mars, start adapting to their new home, they find themselves forgetting their past, non-Martian lives.

Death Is a Lonely Business is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1985. The story, set in 1959, is about a series of murders that happen in Venice, California, then a declining seaside community in Los Angeles where Bradbury lived from 1942 to 1950. The main character and narrator is a sensitive, modest …

De geïllustreerde man is een bundeling sciencefictionverhalen uit 1976 van de Amerikaanse schrijver Ray Bradbury. De basis voor de verhalenbundel werd gevonden in een gezamenlijk thema. De verhalen kwamen tot stand na het beoordelen van een aantal illustraties die als een soort tatoeages om het lijf van een man uit …

The Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of 22 short stories by Ray Bradbury; it was first published in 1953. The book's namesake is one of the short stories in the collection. Bradbury drew the title for the story from the last line of the final stanza to W. B. Yeats' poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus": The last …

Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from …