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. 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.

His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller.

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Groff Conklin of Galaxy Science Fiction praised the collection, saying it included 'some of the best imaginative stories or anyone else has ever written. Imagination reviewer Mark Reinsberg called Bradbury 'a gifted writer', but complained that he had 'a tendency to overestimate the power of style to nourish anemic themes.' Francis McComas of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction found Golden Apples to be a 'most uncertain reading experience… material of a curiously mixed quality writing that is often simply and perceptively moving just as often sadly lacking any particular strength or color'. Writing in The New York Times, Charles Poore reported that Bradbury 'writes in a style that seems to have been nourished on the poets and fabulists of the Irish Literary Renaissance', and said he was 'wonderfully adept at getting to the heart of his story without talking all day long about it and around it.' Īnthony Boucher and J. The semi-omnibus editions omit three of the stories that appear in The Golden Apples of the Sun: ' The Pedestrian' (1951), ' Invisible Boy' (1945), and ' Hail and Farewell' (1953). Harper Perennial titled their 2005 edition as A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories. In 1997, Avon Books printed a new edition of the omnibus, titling it The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories. In 1990, Bantam Books collected most of the stories from R Is for Rocket (1962) and The Golden Apples of the Sun into a semi-omnibus edition titled Classic Stories 1. The collection's title story was first published in the November 1953 issue of Planet Stories, a US pulp science fiction magazine.

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