R Is for Rocket
1962 short story collection by Ray Bradbury
Dust-jacket from the first edition | |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
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Cover artist | Joseph Mugnaini |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Doubleday & Company |
Publication date | 1962 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 233 pp |
Followed by | S Is for Space |
R Is for Rocket (1962) is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury, compiled for Young Adult library sections. It contains fifteen stories from earlier Bradbury collections, and two previously uncollected stories.
Contents
- "R Is for Rocket" (first published as "King of the Gray Spaces")
- "The End of the Beginning"
- "The Fog Horn"
- "The Rocket"
- "The Rocket Man"
- "The Golden Apples of the Sun"
- "A Sound of Thunder"
- "The Long Rain"
- "The Exiles"
- "Here There Be Tygers"
- "The Strawberry Window"
- "The Dragon"
- "The Gift"
- "Frost and Fire"
- "Uncle Einar"
- "The Time Machine"
- "The Sound of Summer Running"
References
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 63. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
Further reading
- Eller, Jonathan R.; F. Touponce, William (2004). Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction. Kent State University Press. pp. 375–379. ISBN 978-0-87338-779-8. OCLC 1022657627.
External links
- R Is for Rocket title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- R Is for Rocket publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Bibliography (Short fiction)
- The Martian Chronicles (1950)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- Dandelion Wine (1957)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
- The Halloween Tree (1972)
- Death Is a Lonely Business (1985)
- A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)
- Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
- From the Dust Returned (2001)
- Let's All Kill Constance (2002)
- Farewell Summer (2006)
- "Hollerbochen's Dilemma" (1938)
- "The Scythe" (1943)
- "I, Rocket" (1944)
- "The Lake" (1944)
- "Frost and Fire" (1946)
- "The Million Year Picnic" (1946)
- "The Small Assassin" (1946)
- "I See You Never" (1947)
- "Fever Dream" (1948)
- "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948)
- "The Long Years" (1948)
- "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948)
- "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949)
- "The Exiles" (1949)
- "Marionettes, Inc." (1949)
- "The Long Rain" (1950)
- "The Rocket" (1950)
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950)
- "The Veldt" (1950)
- "Ylla" (1950)
- "Embroidery" (1951)
- "The Fog Horn" (1951)
- "Here There Be Tygers" (1951)
- "The Pedestrian" (1951)
- "The April Witch" (1952)
- "A Sound of Thunder" (1952)
- "The Wilderness" (1952)
- "The Flying Machine" (1953)
- "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953)
- "The Meadow" (1953)
- "The Murderer" (1953)
- "Sun and Shadow" (1953)
- "All Summer in a Day" (1954)
- "The Dragon" (1955)
- "The Aqueduct" (1979)
- "Banshee" (1984)
- "The Toynbee Convector" (1984)
- "Is That You, Herb?" (2003)
- Dark Carnival (1947)
- The Illustrated Man (1951)
- The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
- The October Country (1955)
- A Medicine for Melancholy (1959)
- The Day It Rained Forever (1959)
- The Small Assassin (1962)
- R Is for Rocket (1962)
- The Machineries of Joy (1964)
- The Vintage Bradbury (1965)
- S Is for Space (1966)
- Twice 22 (1966)
- I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
- Ray Bradbury (1975)
- Long After Midnight (1976)
- The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979)
- The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980)
- The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980)
- The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980)
- Dinosaur Tales (1983)
- A Memory of Murder (1984)
- The Toynbee Convector (1988)
- Classic Stories 1 (1990)
- Classic Stories 2 (1990)
- The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991)
- Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991)
- Quicker Than the Eye (1996)
- Driving Blind (1997)
- Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001)
- One More for the Road (2002)
- Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003)
- The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004)
- A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005)
- The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007)
- Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007)
- A Pleasure to Burn (2010)
- The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011, 2014)
- The Meadow (1947)
- The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953)
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972)
- Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975)
- The Martian Chronicles (1986)
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1986)
- Dandelion Wine (1988)
- The Veldt (1988)
- It Came from Outer Space (1953)
- Moby Dick (1956 screenplay)
- "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962)
- The Autumn People (1965)
- Tomorrow Midnight (1966)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- The Picasso Summer (1969)
- The Illustrated Man (1969)
- The Martian Chronicles (1980 miniseries)
- The Electric Grandmother (1982)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
- Bradbury 13 (radio series, 1983–84)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1984)
- "The Burning Man" (1985)
- The Veldt (1987)
- The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series, 1985–86, 1988-1992)
- The Halloween Tree (1993)
- Dandelion Wine (1997)
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
- A Sound of Thunder (2005)
- Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis (2008)
- The Whispers (2015)
- Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
- Futuria Fantasia (1939–1940)
- The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978)
- Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
- It Came from Outer Space (2003 book)
- Bettina F. Bradbury (daughter)
- Spaceship Earth
- Ray Bradbury Center
- Bradbury Landing
- Ray Bradbury Award
- Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury
- Dandelion crater
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