Ray Bradbury
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English
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A collection of new short stories by the award-winning science-fiction writer of One More for the Road includes tales of twentieth-century rural life, Halloween terrors, and flights of fancy on Martian shores. Ray Bradbury is, indisputably, one of America's greatest storytellers. The recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he ranks among the most beloved, and widely read, of American...
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English
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"On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door - and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soaked and shivering in his foyer, clutching two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge: twin lists of the Tinseltown dead and soon-to-be-dead...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 979 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 326
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xliii, 1,059 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Twenty-one tales. In The Very Gentle Murders, two very old people scheme to murder each other, while Last Rites is on a man who travels back in time to comfort big name writers not famous in their day to assure them they will be so after their death.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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xvii, 893 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself,...
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Pub. Date
1988.
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vii, 275 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A superlative new collection of twenty-two stories by the author of "The Martian Chronicles" includes the continuing saga of H.G. Well's time traveller and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xvi, 509 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Told through letters from his late teens to his ninth decade, this collection shows the iconic author's progression through life as he knew it, illuminating his enduring legacy as a storyteller, novelist and space-age visionary whose works turned into popular adaptations for stage, film and television.
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Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-508
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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The new collection contains 20 stories, including classics of the genre and rare, little-known gems such as the title story, Bradbury's first published mystery. A number of the stories were adapted by the author for his popular TV series, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and fans of Bradbury's work will recognize his touch with crime stories about circus sideshow performers and ventriloquists' dummies, sunken cathedrals, time travelers, and robots that look...
15) Driving blind
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Pub. Date
[1997]
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Twenty-one stories with general themes by a leading science fiction writer. In one story, a dead man thinks he is still alive, another story features a killer garbage disposal unit, and a third is on the downside of immortality.