The Golden Apples of the Sun, Ray Bradbury
The Golden Apples of the Sun, Ray Bradbury
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The Golden Apples of the Sun
And Other Stories

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 13 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/15/2018


Synopsis

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safary, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centurys great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on November 14, 2007

How many movies have ripped off the "Sound of Thunder" time-travel idea? You'll never know until you read it. Incidentally, Bradbury's intro "Drunk and in charge of a Bicycle" contains all of my email passwords for the last 15 years. Now that's dedication to an author.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 20, 2021

Pretty good collection of short stories here. Many of them I read for the first time. If you like Bradbury you will like these stories. It seems like a lot of these stories were not as good as what he usually wrote, but there are some gems in here such as "Embroidery" a story about an atomic holocau......more

Goodreads review by Jay on March 20, 2021

Back to my youth and why became a science fiction enthusiast. Some of the stories I remember like "R is for Rocket" (where a boy dreams of space and gets his chance) and the Rocket (a junk dealer buys a rocket). Most I don't remember, but are dazzling stories on life on Mars, Venus and elsewhere. Th......more