Ray Bradbury - Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1

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Copyright © 1980 Ray Bradbury Enterprises / A California Corporation

Copyright 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980 by Ray Bradbury.

Copyright renewed 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 by Ray Bradbury.

Originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

‘The Coffin’ was originally published in Dime Mystery . Copyright 1947 by Popular Publications. ‘The Man Upstairs’ was originally published in Harper’s magazine. Copyright 1947 by Harper & Brothers. ‘Punishment Without Crime’ was originally published in Other Worlds . Copyright 1950 by Other Worlds. ‘The Long Rain’, ‘Frost and Fire’, and ‘The Blue Bottle’ were originally published in Planet Stories . Copyright 1946, 1950 by Love Romances Publishing Company, Inc. ‘The City’ was originally published in Startling Stories , Copyright 1950 by Better Publications, Inc. “Kaleidoscope” was originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories . Copyright 1949 by Standard Magazines.

Most of the stories in this book were previously published in the UK in the following: The Illustrated Man , first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1952, and then by Grafton 1977, Flamingo Modern Classics 1995, Voyager Classics 2002, The Martian Chronicles , first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1951 under the title Silver Locusts , Corgi 1956, Grafton 1977 publication also entitled Silver Locusts , published by Flamingo 1995; R is for Rocket , first published in Great Britain by Rupert-Hart Davis Ltd 1968; Machineries of Joy , first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1966, and by Grafton 1977; S is for Space , first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1968; Twice 22 (comprised of stories from Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine for Melancholy ) first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1953; Fahrenheit 451 , first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1954 and by Grafton 1976, by Flamingo 1993, and by Voyager Classics 2001; I Sing the Body Electric! first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1970, Corgi 1971, and Grafton 1991; Dandelion Wine , published by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1957, Corgi 1965 and Grafton 1977; Long After Midnight first published in Great Britain by Hart-Davis MacGibbon 1977; October Country (containing some stories published in Dark Carnival ) first published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1953, New English Library 1963. Some stories also published in the United States in the following: American Mercury; Arkham Sampler; Charm; Collier’s; Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine; Eros; Esquire; Famous Fantastic Mysteries; alaxy; Harper’s; MacLean’s; Mademoiselle; Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; Marvel Science Fiction; McCall’s; Penthouse; Planet Stories; Playboy; Sai nt Detective; Saturday Evening Post; Seventeen; Shenandoah; Star Science Fiction Stories #3; Startling Stories; Super Science Fiction Stories; Thrilling Wonder Stories; Today; and Weird Tales.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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Cover

Title Page

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Drunk, and in Charge of a Bicycle: An Introduction by Ray Bradbury

The Night

Homecoming

Uncle Einar

The Traveler

The Lake

The Coffin

The Crowd

The Scythe

There Was an Old Woman

There Will Come Soft Rains

Mars Is Heaven

The Silent Towns

The Earth Men

The Off Season

The Million-Year Picnic

The Fox and the Forest

Kaleidoscope

The Rocket Man

Marionettes, Inc.

No Particular Night or Morning

The City

The Fire Balloons

The Last Night of the World

The Veldt

The Long Rain

The Great Fire

The Wilderness

A Sound of Thunder

The Murderer

The April Witch

Invisible Boy

The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind

The Fog Horn

The Big Black and White Game

Embroidery

The Golden Apples of the Sun

Powerhouse

Hail and Farewell

The Great Wide World over There

The Playground

Skeleton

The Man Upstairs

Touched with Fire

The Emissary

The Jar

The Small Assassin

The Next in Line

Jack-in-the-Box

The Leave-Taking

Exorcism

The Happiness Machine

Calling Mexico

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed

The Strawberry Window

A Scent of Sarsaparilla

The Picasso Summer

The Day It Rained Forever

A Medicine for Melancholy

The Shoreline at Sunset

Fever Dream

The Town Where No One Got Off

All Summer in a Day

Frost and Fire

The Anthem Sprinters

And So Died Riabouchinska

Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!

The Vacation

The Illustrated Woman

Some Live Like Lazarus

The Best of All Possible Worlds

The One Who Waits

Tyrannosaurus Rex

The Screaming Woman

The Terrible Conflagration up at the Place

Night Call, Collect

The Tombling Day

The Haunting of the New

Tomorrow’s Child

I Sing the Body Electric!

The Women

The Inspired Chicken Motel

Yes, We’ll Gather at the River

Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!

A Story of Love

The Parrot Who Met Papa

The October Game

Punishment Without Crime

A Piece of Wood

The Blue Bottle

Long After Midnight

The Utterly Perfect Murder

The Better Part of Wisdom

Interval in Sunlight

The Black Ferris

Farewell Summer

McGillahee’s Brat

The Aqueduct

Gotcha!

The End of the Beginning

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About the Author

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About the Publisher

In 1953 I wrote an article for The Nation defending my work as a sciencefiction writer, even though that label only applied to perhaps one third of my output each year.

A few weeks later, in late May, a letter arrived from Italy. On the back of the envelope, in a spidery hand, I read these words: