This poignant, wise but slight "extension" of the indefatigable Bradbury's semiautobiographical Dandelion Wine picks up the story of 12-year-old Douglas Spaulding in October of 1928, when the warmth of summer still clings to Green Town, Ill. As in his episodic 1957 novel, Bradbury evokes the rhythms of a long-gone smalltown America with short, swift chapters that build to a lyrical meditation on aging and death. Playing at war, the imaginative Douglas and his friends target the town's elderly men, and the outraged 81-year-old bachelor Calvin C. Quartermain attempts to organize a counterattack against the boys' mischief. Rebelling against their elders-and the specter of age and death-Douglas and his gang steal the old men's chess pieces before deciding that Time, as embodied by the courthouse clock, is their true nemesis. The story turns on a gift of birthday cake that triggers Douglas and Quartermain's mutual recognition: "He had seen himself peer forth from the boy's eyes." Soon thereafter, Douglas's first kiss and new, acute awareness of girls serves as the harbinger of his inevitable adulthood. Bradbury's mature but fresh return to his beloved early writing conveys a depth of feeling. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information

This Ray Bradbury collection is comprised of nine early short stories rarely or never reprinted since first publication. Included are three stories originally published in Mr. Bradbury's own science fiction fanzine, Futuria Fantasia. " Don't Get Technatal ": Jumping Jigwheels! If you enjoy exclamation points, this story was written for you! In the distant year of 1975 a dissatisfied writer rants about the state of society! Could robosexuality be the answer he seeks?(!) " The Pendulum ": A delightful little story with delightfully unconventional spelling. " The Flight of the Good Ship Clarissa ": Not entirely lucid but entertaining nevertheless. " I, Rocket ": There may be an unwholesome subtext to this story. "Mass is the sexual drive of space, and gravity the intensified yearning of that mass, the gravitic libido of one tremendous body for the love, the following of any and all smaller bodies who transgress its void boundaries." " Undersea Guardians ": Half-naked sea-dwelling zombies battle the Nazi Kriegsmarine! " Final Victim ": "Hunting a criminal is tough enough, but it's even tougher when it's on a bit of Hell's own rock in the void of space." " Defense Mech ": There are no giant, Japanese-speaking robots in this story. It is, however, a riveting tale of the effects of space on the human psyche. " Lorelei of the Red Mist ": A second chance in someone else's body becomes complicated when its previous owner was universally hated. " Jonah of the Jove-Run ": "They hated this little beat-up old guy. Even if his crazy cosmic brain could track an asteroid clear across the Galaxy, why did he have to smash the super-sensitive meteor detectors?" Punctuation and apparent typographical errors in the Futuria Fantasia stories have been left as originally published. " Don't Get Technatal " (as Ron Reynolds) Futuria Fantasia (1939) " The Pendulum " (uncredited) Futuria Fantasia (1939) " The Flight of the Good Ship Clarissa " (uncredited) Futuria Fantasia (1940) " I, Rocket " Amazing Stories (May 1944) " Undersea Guardians " Amazing Stories (December 1944) " Final Victim " Amazing Stories (February 1946) " Defense Mech " Planet Stories (February 1946) " Lorelei of the Red Mist " Planet Stories (May 1946) " Jonah of the Jove-Run " Planet Stories (Spring, 1948)

Ray Bradbury's strange, magical, and unsettling story of a grown boy bent on understanding the man behind the beard, red coat, and hat at his local department store.An adolescent boy stands patiently in the back of the long line of children waiting to sit on the lap of their local Santa Claus. Why is he there? What does he intend? What mysterious hopes does he hold for this holiday season? The answer arrives following a cryptic interaction between the two, when the reality of the boy's awareness and the goals of the man in the red suit become clear."Dear Santa" by Ray Bradbury is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books's Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and read them all!

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 charming short story from Ray Bradbury may change the way you look at classic literature forever. "One More Body in the Pool" by Ray Bradbury is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books's Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and listen to them all! **

Short story by Bradbury published in Galaxy Science Fiction.

In 2055 a hunter named Eckels goes on the adventure of a lifetime: travelling back into the past on a prehistoric safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus rex . He is warned that even the smallest change in the past could have unpredictable consequences in the present…

A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury, published in 1990. It is the second in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator. Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

One of Ray Bradbury's classic poetry collections, available in ebook for the first time. Ray Bradbury writes of childhood, Melville, and God as well as space launchings and other-world things in this second collection of his poems.