Ray Douglas Bradbury, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet, was born Augin Waukegan. Genres Science Fiction Fiction Classics Short Stories. Read for the first time, these stories are a feast for the imagination read again - and again - they reveal new, dazzling facets of a master storyteller's extraordinary art. The Silent Towns The Long Years There Will Come Soft Rains The Million Year Picnic. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories such as 'The Fog Horn' - perfect for reading under the covers. ( ) A car crash survivor ( Nick Mancuso) investigates a mysterious and sinister crowd that congregates at the sites of severe automobile accidents. Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradbury's astonishing inventiveness. The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction novel written by Ray Bradbury, and first published in 1950. Here are stories which speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood - except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine. Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky. Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent young children transform their nursery into a lethal trap. The terrible conflagration up at the place. Boys! Raise giant mushrooms in your cellar!.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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