A classic collection of Ray Bradbury's short fiction, available in ebook for the first time.

 In twenty-two stories of amazing range and variety, Ray Bradbury once again works his special magic, sounding out life's mysteries in the past, present, and the future.

Long After Midnight

From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales.

We'll Always Have Paris

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley WiaterContents:· Prologue: The Illustrated Man · ss * · The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 ’50 · Kaleidoscope · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct ’49 · The Other Foot · ss New Story Magazine Mar ’51 · The Highway [as by Leonard Spalding] · ss Copy Spr ’50 · The Man · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb ’49 · The Long Rain [“Death-by-Rain”] · ss Planet Stories Sum ’50 · The Rocket Man · ss Maclean’s Mar 1 ’51 · The Fire Balloons [“‘In This Sign...’”] · ss Imagination Apr ’51 · The Last Night of the World · ss Esquire Feb ’51 · The Exiles [“The Mad Wizards of Mars”] · ss Maclean’s Sep 15 ’49; F&SF Win ’50 · No Particular Night or Morning · ss * · The Fox and the Forest [“To the Future”] · ss Colliers May 13 ’50 · The Visitor · ss Startling Stories Nov ’48 · The Concrete Mixer · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’49 · Marionettes, Inc. [Marionettes, Inc.] · ss Startling Stories Mar ’49 · The City [“Purpose”] · ss Startling Stories Jul ’50 · Zero Hour · ss Planet Stories Fll ’47 · The Rocket [“Outcast of the Stars”] · ss Super Science Stories Mar ’50 · Epilogue · aw *

L'homme illustré

Analyse : Roman de science-fiction. Nouvelles.

A L'ouest D'octobre

Celebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories - tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy.

 Time travellers.dark carnivals.living automata.and detectives? Honouring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Ray Bradbury Theater, including the tale Bradbury called 'one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written'.

 Is it murder to destroy a robot if it looks and speaks and thinks and feels like a human being? Can a ventriloquist be incriminated by the testimony of his own dummy? Can a time traveller prevent his younger self from killing the woman they both loved? And can the survivor of a pair of Siamese twins investigate his own brother's murder? No other writer has ever rivalled the imagination and narrative gifts of Ray Bradbury, and the 20 unforgettable stories in this collection demonstrate this singular writer's extraordinary range, influence and emotional power.

Killer, Come Back To Me

Demain, l'homme aura plus que jamais besoin de la nature. Mais quelle nature l'homme se réserve-t-il ? Dans quels milieux séduisants ou hostiles devra-t-il évoluer ? Des récits palpitants qui dérangent, qui interrogent, évoquant une nature tout à tour domestiquée, rejetée, reconstituée - ou au contraire toute-puissante.La montagne sans nom, de Robert SheckleyEn 1955, Robert Sheckley imagine le dernier des grands projets inutiles. Cette nouvelle visionnaire et pleine d’imagination illustre à merveille l’art de Robert Sheckley. Pourfendeur acerbe de la société américaine et de son American Way of Life, il s’attaque ici à l’arrogance du productivisme capitaliste et de ses serviteurs, et à la soif d’expansion de l’humanité qui ne peut s’étancher qu’au détriment des minorités, des cultures locales et de la nature.« La montagne sans nom » (titre original : « The Mountain Without a Name ») est parue aux États-Unis en 1955 et en France en 1969 dans la revue Fiction, n° 192.Elle a été reprise en 1981 dans le recueil collectif intitulé La montagne sans nom et autre récits sur la nature (Gallimard, Folio Junior), qui comprend aussi des nouvelles de Ray Bradbury, Christian Grenier, Gérard Klein, Robin Scott, Alfred Eton Van Vogt…

La Montagne sans nom, et autres récits sur la nature

One of Ray Bradbury's classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.

 SUMMER MORNING, SUMMER NIGHT is a collection of short stories and vignettes based in Green Town, Illinois, the fictionalised version of Ray Bradbury's native Waukegan, which also served as the setting for his modern classics DANDELION WINE, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and FAREWELL SUMMER.

 Among them are stories about a pair of elderly sisters who concoct a love potion with unexpected consequence; the careful affection between a teacher and her young student; the fireflies in the night who spark a conversation about life between a young boy and his grandfather. This is a beautifully woven tapestry of stories that illuminates some of Green Town's hidden corners, and reaffirms Bradbury's position as an undisputed master of fiction.

 One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Bradbury is also the author of the iconic FAHRENHEIT 451, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN and THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. He published some five hundred short stories, novels and plays over his lifetime.

Summer Morning, Summer Night

Par une nuit de tempête, un romancier en panne d'inspiration reçoit l'étrange visite de Constance Rattigan, une actrice mythique. Elle se sent persécutée. Pour preuve, ce «livre des morts» déposé devant chez elle et dans lequel sont énumérées les personnalités défuntes qu'elle a connues autrefois, ainsi que le nom de morts à venir. Elle figure sur cette liste... 
Afin de venir en aide à son amie et de percer ce mystère, l'auteur plonge dans le passé de la star, convoque le fantôme de ses producteurs, de ses partenaires connus et inconnus, ressuscitant ainsi l'univers légendaire du Hollywood de la grande époque. 
À la fois satire et célébration d'un univers perdu, Il faut tuer Constance, manière d'autobiographie imaginaire, achève le cycle dédié à Constance Rattigan initié par La solitude est un cercueil de verre et prolongé par Le fantôme d'Hollywood.

Il faut tuer constance

Dans ce monde-là, les sorcières sont des jeunes filles qui rêvent de tomber amoureuses, les hommes noirs échappés de la Terre vivent heureux sur Mars loin des hommes blancs, la brousse africaine a virtuellement envahi la chambre des enfants et les monstres marins émergent de l'eau pour faire écho aux sirènes des phares. Dans ce monde-là, les frontières entre le réel et l'imaginaire ont disparu, et le fantastique se mêle de poésie. Ce monde-là, c'est l'univers d'un maître de la science-fiction.

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