Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhouse mirrors, parasitic accident-watchers, and strange poker chips intact. Both sides of Bradbury's vaunted childhood nostalgia are also on display, in the celebratory "Uncle Einar," and haunting "The Lake," the latter a fine elegy to childhood loss. This edition features a new introduction by Bradbury, an invaluable essay on writing, wherein the author tells of his "Theater of Morning Voices," and, by inference, encourages you to listen to the same murmurings in yourself. And has any writer anywhere ever made such good use of exclamation marks!? (Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini.)

Contents:

·
The Dwarf
· ss Fantastic Jan/Feb ’54
·
The Next in Line
· nv Dark Carnival, Arkham House: Sauk City, WI, 1947
·
The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse
· ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Mar ’54
· Skeleton · ss Weird Tales Sep ’45
·
The Jar
· ss Weird Tales Nov ’44
·
The Lake
· ss Weird Tales May ’44
·
The Emissary
· ss Dark Carnival, Arkham House: Sauk City, WI, 1947
· Touched with Fire [“Shopping for Death”] · ss Maclean’s Jun 1 ’54
·
The Small Assassin
· ss Dime Mystery Magazine Nov ’46
·
The Crowd
· ss Weird Tales May ’43
·
Jack-in-the-Box
· ss Dark Carnival, Arkham House: Sauk City, WI, 1947
·
The Scythe
· ss Weird Tales Jul ’43
·
Uncle Einar
· ss Dark Carnival, Arkham House: Sauk City, WI, 1947
·
The Wind
· ss Weird Tales Mar ’43
·
The Man Upstairs
· ss Harper’s Mar ’47
·
There Was an Old Woman
· ss Weird Tales Jul ’44
·
The Cistern
· ss Mademoiselle May ’47
· Homecoming · ss Mademoiselle Oct ’46
·
The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
· ss Charm Jul ’54

Imagine uma época em que os livros configurem uma ameaça ao sistema, uma sociedade onde eles são proibidos. Para exterminá-los, basta chamar os bombeiros - profissionais que outrora se dedicavam à extinção de incêndios, mas que agora são os responsáveis pela manutenção da ordem, queimando publicações e impedindo que o conhecimento se dissemine como praga. Para coroar a alienação em que vive essa nova sociedade, as casa são dotadas de televisores que ocupam paredes inteiras de cômodos, e exibem "famílias" com as quais se pode dialogar, como se estas fossem de fatos reais.

Este é o cenário em que vive Guy Montag, bombeiro que atravessa série crise ideológica. Sua esposa passa o dia entretida com seus "parentes televisivos", enquanto ele trabalha arduamente. Sua vida vazia é transformada quando ele conhece a vizinha Clarisse, uma adolescente que reflete sobre o mundo à sua volta e que o instiga a fazer o mesmo. O sumiço misterioso de Clarisse leva Montag a se rebelar contra a política estabelecida, e ele passa a esconder livros em sua própria casa. Denunciado por sua ousadia, é obrigado a mudar de tática e a buscar aliados na luta pela preservação do pensamento e da memória.

Um clássico de Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 é não só uma crítica à repressão política mas também à superficialidade da era da imagem, sintomático do século XX e que ainda parece não esmorecer.

Introdução por: Manuel da Costa Pinto, escritor do prefácio desta edição de Fahrenheit 451.

آنچه بر دوش می‌کشیدند ضیافتی از داستان‌های کوتاه را ترتیب داده است. هر ‫داستان، کلاسیک یا مدرن، طعم و بوی خاص خود را دارد و مخاطب را در فضایی میان گذشته و حال شناور می‌سازد. دست‌چینی از آثار کوتاه و اندیشه‌ساز نویسندگان انگلیسی زبان، چه آن‌ها که از نژاد آنگلوساکسون بودند و در انگلستان یا ایرلند به دنیا آمدند و چه آن‌ها که در قارهٔ نو‌، پا به عرصهٔ وجود گذاشتند، پیش روی شیفتگان داستان قرار گرفته است. شخصیت‌هایی متفاوت خلق می‌شوند و برخی‌شان خواننده را در جهانی از چلش‌ها، انگیزه‌ها، کنش‌ها و تأمّلات درونی و فلسفی خویش، درگیر می‌سازند. هر شخصیت، از کودک آرمان‌خواه فاتح اسپانیایی و پدربزرگش گرفته تا ستوانی دل‌باخته به نام جیمی کراس، در آنچه بر دوش می‌کشیدند، که دل در گرو عشق مارتا دارد، جلوه‌ای آشنا از طبیعت بشر و ایده‌آل‌هایش را باز می‌آفریند و این‌گونه، احساس هم‌ذات پنداری مخاطب را برمی‌انگیزد. ولی علیرغم تفاوت‌هایی بی‌شمار که در جهان‌بینی شخصیت‌ها و نحوهٔ نگرش آن‌ها به آدم‌های پیرامونشان به چشم می‌خورد، تمامشان از وجهی مشترک برخوردارند و آن، بار تحمّل‌ناپذیر تنها بودن است که هریک به شکلی، بر دوش می‌کشند.


The present book is a selection of short and thought-provoking short stories by English-speaking authors. Each story, classic or modern, has its own taste and smell and makes the audience float between the past and the present. The theme is presented to the reader from the dark atmosphere of the stories and the pessimistic look that is housed in the lower layers, and flips over to the raw fantasy of the simple-minded who strongly believe that life is a sweet and pleasant phenomenon. In the story of "Hand", we read: A man finds an artificial hand that has fallen on the floor of the street and takes it home with him, washes it, and constantly thinks about what the owner of this hand looks like. She goes to the market to find men without hands

برگزیدهٔ داستان‌های کوتاه ری برادبری

The Golden Apples of the Sun is a collection of thirty-two of Ray Bradbury's most famous tales. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising manifestations of the future but also to the wonders of a present we could never have imagined on our own.

More than sixty years after its originally publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
--back cover

کشوری که همیشه آخر سال است. کشوری که تپه‌هایش خود مه و رودخانه‌هایش خود ابرآلودگی است؛ آن‌جا که ظهرش تند گذر است و شفق و شبش پا سفت‌کنان؛ و نیم شبش نمی‌گذرد. این کشوری است برآمده از سرداب‌ها، زیر سرداب‌ها، خاکه زغال، کمدها، زیر شیروانی‌ها و پستوها. این کشوری که مردمش خزان‌وارند تنها افکار سرد از ضمیرشان می‌گذرد. مردمش می‌گذرند با راه‌پیمایی‌های میان تهی، با صدایی که انگاری رگبار می‌زند.

‫در شب هالووین، هشت پسر برای گرفتن شکلات بیرون می‌روند ولی متوجه می‌شوند یکی از دوستان‌شان گم شده است. آنها به کمک شخصیتی مرموز در زمان و مکان سفر می‌کنند تا دوست گمشده‌شان را پیدا کنند.

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival , later reworked into The October Country ), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater

Contents:

· Prologue: The Illustrated Man · ss *
· The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 ’50
· Kaleidoscope · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct ’49
· The Other Foot · ss New Story Magazine Mar ’51
· The Highway [as by Leonard Spalding] · ss Copy Spr ’50
· The Man · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb ’49
· The Long Rain [“Death-by-Rain”] · ss Planet Stories Sum ’50
· The Rocket Man · ss Maclean’s Mar 1 ’51
· The Fire Balloons [“‘In This Sign...’”] · ss Imagination Apr ’51
· The Last Night of the World · ss Esquire Feb ’51
· The Exiles [“The Mad Wizards of Mars”] · ss Maclean’s Sep 15 ’49; F&SF Win ’50
· No Particular Night or Morning · ss *
· The Fox and the Forest [“To the Future”] · ss Colliers May 13 ’50
· The Visitor · ss Startling Stories Nov ’48
· The Concrete Mixer · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’49
· Marionettes, Inc. [Marionettes, Inc.] · ss Startling Stories Mar ’49
· The City [“Purpose”] · ss Startling Stories Jul ’50
· Zero Hour · ss Planet Stories Fll ’47
· The Rocket [“Outcast of the Stars”] · ss Super Science Stories Mar ’50
· Epilogue · aw *

One of twelve short stories the late science-fiction legend wrote for Esquire. And, weirdly, perhaps the most lasting.

ساحره‌ی سرگردان شامل 10 داستان کوتاه ساده و سرراست است؛ داستان‌هایی که به‌ناگاه شکل می‌گیرند و اثری همچون یک تلنگر به‌جا می‌گذارند. در قصه‎‌های برادبری اشیا و محیط پیرامون به اندازه‌ی آدمها در پیشبرد قصه سهمیند؛ داستان‌ها از دل روابط بیرون می‌آیند و از اشیای پیرامون تاثیر می‌پذیرند و جهانی ملموس خلق می‌کنند.

Ten incredible trips into the unknown await you...

Blast off with:

• Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo an all-new and exclusive tale from Rick Riordan

• A Day in the Life by award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan

• Rise of the RoboShoes by Tom Angleberger of Origami Yoda fame

And many more weird and wonderful stories by legendary writer Ray Bradbury, Newbery medalist Rebecca Stead, Shannon Hale, D. J. MacHale, Eric Nylund, Kenneth Oppel and Neal Shusterman.

Compiled by US National Ambassador for Children’s Literature (and Secret Ambassador for the Intergalactic Alliance) Jon Scieszka, Other Worlds will boldly take you where no reader has gone before.

Previous cover edition of ASIN B00BAJ6GL2

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

Over the course of a storied literary career that has spanned more than half a century, Ray Bradbury has taken us to wonderful places: across vast oceans to foreign lands, onto summer porches of small-town America, through dark and dangerous forests where predators wait, into the hypnotic mists of dream, back to a halcyon past to remember, forward into an exhilarating future, and rocketing through outer space.

In We'll Always Have Paris —a new collection of never-before-published stories—the inimitable Bradbury once again does what few writers have ever done as well. He delights us with prose that soars and sings. He surprises and inspires, exposing truths and provoking deep thought. He imagines great things and poignantly observes human foibles and frailties. He enchants us with the magic he mastered decades ago and still performs flawlessly. In these pages, radio voices become indomitable flesh and the dead arise to recapture life. There is joy in an eccentric old man's dance for the world and wonder over the workings of humankind's best friend, O Holy Dog. Whether he's exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or the circumstances that can make any man a killer, or returning us to Mars, Bradbury opens the world to us and beckons us in.

Get ready to travel far and wide once again with America's preeminent storyteller. His tales will live forever. We will always have Bradbury—and for that reason, we are eternally blessed.

That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival , later reworked into The October Country ), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater

Contents:

· Prologue: The Illustrated Man · ss *
· The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 ’50
· Kaleidoscope · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct ’49
· The Other Foot · ss New Story Magazine Mar ’51
· The Highway [as by Leonard Spalding] · ss Copy Spr ’50
· The Man · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb ’49
· The Long Rain [“Death-by-Rain”] · ss Planet Stories Sum ’50
· The Rocket Man · ss Maclean’s Mar 1 ’51
· The Fire Balloons [“‘In This Sign...’”] · ss Imagination Apr ’51
· The Last Night of the World · ss Esquire Feb ’51
· The Exiles [“The Mad Wizards of Mars”] · ss Maclean’s Sep 15 ’49; F&SF Win ’50
· No Particular Night or Morning · ss *
· The Fox and the Forest [“To the Future”] · ss Colliers May 13 ’50
· The Visitor · ss Startling Stories Nov ’48
· The Concrete Mixer · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’49
· Marionettes, Inc. [Marionettes, Inc.] · ss Startling Stories Mar ’49
· The City [“Purpose”] · ss Startling Stories Jul ’50
· Zero Hour · ss Planet Stories Fll ’47
· The Rocket [“Outcast of the Stars”] · ss Super Science Stories Mar ’50
· Epilogue · aw *

FROM PLANET Mad! impossible world! Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night--and life condensed by radiation into eight days! Sim eyed the Ship--if he only dared reach it and escape! ... but it was more than half an hour distant--perhaps the limit of life itself! From the author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man. Originally published in the Fall 1946 issue of Planet Stories. It was later reprinted under the title Frost and Fire.

Contents:
9 • In a Season of Calm Weather (1957)
18 • The Dragon (1955)
23 • A Medicine for Melancholy
36 • The End of the Beginning (1956)
43 • The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit • non-genre (1958)
71 • Fever Dream (1948)
81 • The Marriage Mender (1954)
88 • The Town Where No One Got Off (1958)
99 • A Scent of Sarsaparilla (1953)
109 • Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1956)
117 • The Headpiece (1958)
128 • Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1949)
146 • The Smile (1952)
153 • The First Night of Lent (1956)
163 • The Time of Going Away (1956)
173 • All Summer in a Day (1954)
182 • The Gift (1952)
186 • The Great Collision of Monday Last (1958)
195 • The Little Mice (1955)
203 • The Shore Line at Sunset (1959) (variant of The Shoreline at Sunset)
216 • The Strawberry Window (1955)
227 • The Day It Rained Forever (1957)

"La mer Unique ! Il n'y avait qu'un continent sur Vénus. Cette terre faisait cinq mille kilomètres de long sur presque mille six cents kilomètres de large, et autour de cette île s'étendait la mer Unique qui couvrait toute la planète pluvieuse. La mer Unique qui venait clapoter paresseusement sur la rive pâle..."Un voyage spatial et temporel en cinq nouvelles, par l'auteur des Chroniques martiennes et de Fahrenheit 451.

Dentre as temáticas do universo sci-fi, nenhuma delas é tão popular, envolvente e plural quanto as viagens no tempo. Esta coletânea reúne, em um único volume e pela primeira vez no Brasil, dezoito contos de alguns dos gigantes do universo sci-fi, abrangendo cinco décadas, de 1940 a 1990, e incluindo desde “Um Som de Trovão”, de Ray Bradbury, que inspirou o nome da famosa teoria do Efeito Borboleta, até Ursula K. LeGuin, em “Outra História ou um Pescador do Mar Interior”, ou mesmo uma ideia impensável, como no conto do premiado Jack Dann “Inversão do Tempo”, que propõe respostas surpreendentes para uma pergunta perturbadora: e se todos viajassem no tempo, menos você?

Przerażająco prorocza powieść o przyszłości w świecie postliterackim…

Guy Montag jest strażakiem. Jego praca polega na niszczeniu najbardziej zakazanego ze wszystkich dóbr, źródła wszelkich niesnasek i nieszczęść: książek.

Nie przychodzi mu do głowy, że mógłby kwestionować swoje nijakie życie – dopóki nie zostanie mu objawiona przeszłość, w której ludzie nie żyli w strachu, i teraźniejszość, w której można postrzegać świat przez pryzmat idei.

Zaczyna ukrywać w domu książki, które wkrótce zagrożą jego życiu.