With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...
A Sound of Thunder
Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure.
I turned my head , inclining my ear back down the hall toward the study . “ Do you think your deckhands all go to that devilish place in Magnolia Springs ? ” my mother asked , all the calm now gone from her voice .
A collection of thirty-two classic stories of fantasy and science fiction
When a freak natural phenomenon dissolves the boundaries between yesterday and today, the world is transformed into a patchwork mixture of the present and the distant past.
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit.
Offers twenty-one stories about time travel by such authors as Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, and Penelope Lively.
Four short stories and two poems featuring one of the author's great loves: dinosaurs.
But his success comes at a great cost in this towering novel of love and sacrifice by one of our most gifted storytellers.
James F. David. wear , they helped each other into the suits , locking top to bottom , gloves to sleeves , and finally , helmet to the locking ring ... Then with the bunny hop motion they had practiced , he hopped away from the lander .