Ray Bradbury

The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. In this frightening vision of a totalitarian future, a fireman's job is to burn books. Fireman Guy Montag loves his job - until he learns of the ideas that books contain and just what it might mean to think for himself. A classic from one of the greats.

Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole world that lies beyond. It is a pair of new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather's renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley bell on a hazy afternoon. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals that hold time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human...

Chronicles the early attempts by humans to colonize an inhabited Mars by transforming the Red planet into a mirror image of the world they left behind.

A new collection of never-before-published stories, in which Bradbury explores the myriad ways to be reborn, the circumstances that can make any man a killer, and returns us to Mars.

In "The Cat's Pajamas", this "latter-day O. Henry" (Booklist) takes us on an amazing walk through his six-decade career, presenting twenty-two tales - some old, some new, all but two never before published.

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here are thirty-two of his most famous tales-prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry that Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits that spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination. From...

With school approaching, thirteen-year-old Doug Spaulding and his neighborhood friends decide to attempt to stop time by waging war against the elders of their small town, trying everything from fasting to breaking the village clock, and the men, led by school board member Calvin C. Quartermain, fight back.

A sci-fi film writer discovers a body frozen in time and poised to climb from the city of the dead to the city of light.

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination...

The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant...