Ray Bradbury — Stories

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I, Mars
By Ray Bradbury Alone on Mars, yet not alone ... For old Barton’s younger selves lived on, hating, tormenting him for his living proof that…
Pillar of Fire (1)
We cannot tell you what kind of a story this is. We simply cannot present it as we present other stories. It is too tremendous for that. We…
Pillar of Fire (2)
Relatively simple. You walked around killing people who didn't believe in murder, had only heard of it indirectly as some dim gone custom o…
Pillar of Fire (3)
There was only one thing to be done efficiently and completely. He arose in violent moves. His lips were wide and his dark eyes were flared…
Pillar of Fire (4)
Lantry thought, I'm taking this all too easily. Maybe I should kill and run. He's the only one that has found me, yet. Perhaps this is all…
Zero Hour
PLANET STORIES proudly presents one of the best science-fiction stories we have ever seen. Perhaps you will vote it the best! Oh, it was to…
Morgue Ship
This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors—and he would be among the living again. He heard the sta…
The Monster Maker (1)
"Get Gunther," the official orders read. It was to laugh! For Click and Irish were marooned on the pirate's asteroid—their only weapons a s…
The Monster Maker (2)
Marnagan was making good progress ahead of Hathaway. But he stopped and raised his gun and made quick moves with it. "Click! This one here!…
A Little Journey
By RAY BRADBURY Illustrated by THORNE She'd paid good money to see the inevitable ... and then had to work to make it happen! There were tw…
The Creatures That Time Forgot (1)
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 o…
The Creatures That Time Forgot (2)
"Aye," said his father. "Did you hear what he said?" "I heard," said the mother quietly. The last thing Sim saw of his living parents was h…
The Creatures That Time Forgot (3)
"Three extra days! Of living?" Chion nodded firmly. "If we win, we live eleven days instead of eight. The cliffs they live in, something ab…
The Creatures That Time Forgot (4)
"Ahh!" wailed the knowing voices from the cliff. They were watching death. Sim jerked his head up, smiling mechanically, foolishly as if ca…
The Creatures That Time Forgot (5)
"I know." He lifted himself weakly. "But I'll do it." "How will you get the men back here?" "We'll use the river." "If it's there. It may b…
Asleep in Armageddon (1)
Avoid Planetoid 787. Lush and sunny, with fine air and no dangerous beasts, it'll tempt you to curve in for some nice solid-ground sleep. D…
Asleep in Armageddon (2)
And whichever won the battle, would take this ruin of an insane man, the shaking, laughing wild body, and wander it across the face of this…
Defense Mech (1)
Halloway stared down at Earth, and his brain tore loose and screamed, Man, man, how'd you get in a mess like this, in a rocket a million mi…
Defense Mech (2)
Berman's running down-alley with an easy, long-muscled stride. I hear him yelling high and clear, even though he's getting far away. Here c…
Rocket Summer (1)
The first great rocket flight into space, bearing intrepid pioneers to the Moon. The world's ecstasy flared into red mob-hate when Presiden…
Rocket Summer (2)
The next day two million people spread over the rolling hills, through the tiny Jersey towns, sitting atop bugs and plastic beetles. An exc…
Lazarus Come Forth (1)
The Morgue Ship had gleaned information from space that would end the three hundred year war, knowledge that would defeat the aggressor Mar…
Lazarus Come Forth (2)
With one foot, Brandon kicked the teeter-tauter control at the base of the board. The board, whining, began to elevate swiftly. With his fr…
Jonah of the Jove-Run (1)
They hated this little beat-up old guy. Even if his crazy cosmic brain could track a meteor clear across the Galaxy, why did he have to sma…
Jonah of the Jove-Run (2)
The ship hung motionless, silent. Through the ports, Nibley saw they were based on the sunward side of a large planetoid, waiting, shielded…