Мистика Фантастика Фэнтези — Ray Bradbury

In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, a twelve-year-old discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928..

Selected from his bestselling collections The Golden Apples Of The Sun and R Is For Rocket, here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age--the inimitable Ray Bradbury.A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .A nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .An expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . .These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng...

Издание полностью на английском языке.. In Green Town Illinois, Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this, the second book in Bradbury's semi-fictionalised account of his childhood. As the school board's figure of authority Mr Calvin C. Quartermain attempts to outwit the boys at every turn, their antics increase and become ever more daring and mischevious. Once the shadow of winter draws across Green Town, the boys quickly realise that...

The visionary master of science fiction at his best. Written in the age of the atom, when America and Europe optimistically viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's closely interwoven tales of a brutal, stark and unforgiving Martian landscape are both astonishing and insightful. "The Martian Chronicles" tells the story of humanity's repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease called the Great Loneliness when they saw...