A scintillating collection of stories from the master of science fiction.

 Since the beginning of his career in the 1940s, Ray Bradbury has become synonymous with great science fiction from the pulp comic books of his early work to his adaptations for television, stage and screen and most notably for his masterpiece, 'Fahrenheit 451'.

 Bradbury has done a rare thing; to capture both the popular and literary imagination. Within these pages the reader will be transported to foreign and extraordinary worlds, become transfixed by visions of the past, present, and future and be left humbled and inspired by one of most absorbing and engaging writers of this century, and the last.

 This is the second of two volumes offering the very best of his short stories including 'The Garbage Collector', 'The Machineries of Joy' and 'The Toynbee Convector'.

Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2

L'animal roulait ses yeux, grands comme des oeufs d'autruche, vides de toute expression, si ce n'est celle de la faim. Il ferma sa mâchoire avec un grincement de mort. Il courait, les os de son bassin écrasant les buissons, déracinant les arbres, ses pattes enfonçant la terre molle, y imprimant des traces profondes de six pouces. Il courait d'un pas glissant comme s'il exécutait une figure de ballet, incroyablement rapide et agile pour ses dix tonnes. Il avança prudemment dans cette arène ensoleillée, ses belles mains de reptile prospectant l'air.« Mon Dieu ! Eckels se mordit les lèvres. Il pourrait se dresser sur ses pattes et saisir la lune. — Chut ! fit Travis furieux, il ne nous a pas encore vus. — On ne pourra jamais le tuer. » Eckels prononça ce verdict calmement comme si aucun argument ne pouvait lui être opposé. Le fusil dans sa main lui semblait une arme d'enfant. « Nous avons été fous de venir. C'est impossible... »

Un Coup de Tonnerre

451 degrés Fahrenheit représentent la température à laquelle un livre s'enflamme et se consume. Dans cette société future où la lecture, source de questionnement et de réflexion, est considérée comme un acte antisocial, un corps spécial de pompiers est chargé de brûler tous les livres, dont la détention est interdite pour le bien collectif. Montag, le pompier pyromane, se met pourtant à rêver d'un monde différent, qui ne bannirait pas la littérature et l'imaginaire au profit d'un bonheur immédiatement consommable. Il devient dès lors un dangereux criminel, impitoyablement poursuivi par une société qui désavoue son passé.

Fahrenheit 451

A poignant and brilliant sequel to Dandelion Wine from the author of Fahrenheit 451

 In Green Town Illinois, Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this, the second book in Bradbury's semi-fictionalised account of his childhood. As the school board's figure of authority Mr Calvin C. Quartermain attempts to outwit the boys at every turn, their antics increase and become ever more daring and mischevious. Once the shadow of winter draws across Green Town, the boys quickly realise that their enemy is not so much the senior members of their own community, but rather time itself which is ever ebbing away, just beyond the reach of their most daring trick yet: a bold attempt to sabotage the town's clock.

Farewell Summer

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

One of Ray Bradbury's classic novels, available as an ebook for the first time.

 In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts - Moby Dick - in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming.

 But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth impish playwrights, and the boyos at Heeber Finn's pub. In a land where myth is reality, poetry is plentiful, and life's misfortunes are always cause for celebration, Green Shadows, White Whale is the grandest tour of Ireland you'll ever experience - with the irrepressible Ray Bradbury as your enthusiastic guide.

Green Shadows, White Whales

«Le rêve de ma vie se réalisait. Je venais d'être embauché comme scénariste dans un grand studio d'Hollywood. Un studio un peu bizarre, quand même. Situé juste à côté d'un cimetière d'où les morts avaient tendance à sortir la nuit. C'est ainsi que je me suis retrouvé nez à nez avec le cadavre du grand patron des studios, mort depuis vingt ans. Un cadavre qui s'est empressé de disparaître. Comme a disparu mon copain Roy, l'as des effets spéciaux, après s'être fait bousiller tous ses monstres chéris modèle réduit. Il fait dire qu'il n'était plus le même après avoir rencontré la Bête, l'incarnation vivante de l'être de cauchemar qu'on était censés inventer pour notre film. Pagaille dans les studios. Dans quel asile d'aliénés étais-je tombé?»Ray Bradbury poursuit ici l'autobiographie imaginaire sur fond d'hommage au «polar» entamée dans La solitude est un cercueil de verre. Avec une férocité joviale qui n'exclut pas un vieux fond de tendresse grinçante, il règle ses comptes avec les milieux hollywoodiens de la grande époque dans une satire au vitriol qui a tout le parfum du vécu.

Le fantome d'hollywood

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 *

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