Montag est un pompier du futur d'un genre particulier : il brûle les livres. Jusqu'au jour où il se met à en lire, refuse le bonheur obligatoire et rêve d'un monde perdu où la littérature et l'imaginaire ne seraient pas bannis. Devenant du coup un dangereux criminel...

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Science fiction, 7 nouvelles

The murderer --L'assassin / A sound of thunder --Un coup de tonnerre / August 1999 : The Earth men --Août 1999 : les hommes de la Terre / December 2005 : The silent towns --Décembre 2005 : les villes muettes / The Long Rain --La pluie.

Un coup de tonnerre

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

The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection.The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.Contents:Rocket SummerYllaThe Summer NightThe Earth MenThe TaxpayerThe Third Expedition-And the Moon Be Still As BrightThe SettlersThe Green MorningThe LocustsNight MeetingThe ShoreInterimThe MusiciansWay in the Middle of the AirThe Naming of NamesUsher IIThe Old OnesThe MartianThe Luggage StoreThe Off SeasonThe WatchersThe Silent TownsThe Long YearsThere Will Come Soft RainsThe Million Year Picnic

Chroniques martiennes

Ten incredible trips into the unknown await you.

 Blast off with:. 'Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo' an all-new and exclusive tale from Rick Riordan author of 'House of Hades'

 'A Day in the Life' by award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan

 'Rise of the RoboShoes' by Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda fame

 And many more weird and wonderful stories by legendary writer Ray Bradbury, Newbery medalist Rebecca Stead, Shannon Hale, D. J. MacHale, Eric Nylund, Kenneth Oppel and Neal Shusterman.

 Compiled by US National Ambassador for Children's Literature (and Secret Ambassador for the Intergalactic Alliance) Jon Scieszka, Other Worlds will boldly take you where no reader has gone before.

Other Worlds (feat. stories by Rick Riordan, Shaun Tan, Tom Angleberger, Ray Bradbury and more)

Venice, Californie. Nous sommes en octobre 1949, par une nuit d'orage, dans un gros tramway rouge, vieux, grinçant. Le narrateur y est seul avec un homme ivre qui se met à geindre, lui soufflant son haleine avinée dans le cou:«Oh! la solitude est un cercueil de verre.» Puis l'inconnu disparaît. En contrebas, dans le canal, un vieillard se balance, mort, dans une ancienne cage à lion.L'inspecteur Crumley mettra bien du temps à se laisser convaincre par le narrateur, jeune romancier un peu «tête brûlée», qui prétend avoir entendu l'assassin et qui a commencé son enquête auprès de personnages on ne peut plus singuliers.Dès lors, qui, de Crumley ou du détective amateur, débrouillera l'énigme?

La Solitude est un cercueil de verre

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

 In a ghost town hotel in a burning desert three old men await the January rains - and are visited by a strange musician. A family of colonists on Mars are homesick for Earth. Terrified, they begin to notice that each is undergoing a subtle transformation. A man seeks the forgotten scent of sarsaparilla in his attic - and passes through a window into the lost land of his boyhood. The Day It Rained Forever includes many of Ray Bradbury's most celebrated stories.

The Day it Rained Forever

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.

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