Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery writer known best for his 1950 short story collection The Martian Chronicles and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

Works

For Bradbury, there is some blurring of categories, and the distinctions below are somewhat subjective, for he frequently has written multiple short stories about a set of characters or a subject, making minor edits or adding supplemental material, and calling the results a "novel".

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Although he is often described as a science fiction writer, Bradbury does not box himself into any particular categorization:

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:First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal. So Martian Chronicles is not science fiction, it's fantasy. It couldn't happen, you see? That's the reason it's going to be around a long time ? because it's a Greek myth, and myths have staying power. http://weeklywire.com/ww/09-27-99/alibi_feat1.html

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In between his fiction work Bradbury has written many short essays on serious subjects concerning the arts and culture, attracting the attention of serious critics in this field. Bradbury was a consultant for the American Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair and the exhibit housed in EPCOT's Spaceship Earth geosphere at Walt Disney World.

Related Topics:
Essay - 1964 New York World's Fair - EPCOT's - Spaceship Earth - Walt Disney World

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Novels

• (1950) The Martian Chronicles
• (1953) Fahrenheit 451
• (1957) Dandelion Wine
• (1962) Something Wicked This Way Comes
• (1972) The Halloween Tree
• (1985) Death Is a Lonely Business
• (1990) A Graveyard for Lunatics
• (1992) Green Shadows, White Whale
• (2001) From the Dust Returned
• (2003) Let's All Kill Constance
• (2003) It Came from Outer Space

Short story collections

• (1947) Dark Carnival
• (1951) The Illustrated Man
• (1953) The Golden Apples of the Sun (contains "A Sound of Thunder")
• (1955) The October Country
• (1959) A Medicine for Melancholy (contains "All Summer in a Day")
• (1962) R is for Rocket
• (1964) The Machineries of Joy
• (1965) The Vintage Bradbury
• (1966) S is for Space
• (1969) I Sing The Body Electric!
• (1976) Long After Midnight
• (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury
• (1984) A Memory of Murder
• (1988) The Toynbee Convector
• (1996) Quicker Than The Eye
• (1998) Driving Blind
• (2002) One More for the Road
• (2003) '
• (2004) '
• (2005) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

In addition to these collections, many of the stories have been recollected into several "Best Of" style volumes.

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Screenplays and Teleplays

• (1953) It Came From Outer Space (original story)
• (1956) Moby Dick
• Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
• (1956) The Bullet Trick
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• (1956) Shopping For Death
• (1958) Design For Loving
• (1959) Special Delivery
• (1962) The Faith Of Aaron Menefee
• Steve Canyon
• (1959) The Gift
• Trouble Shooters
• (1959) The Tunnel to Yesterday
• (1961) King of Kings (narration, uncredited)
• The Twilight Zone
• (1962) I Sing the Body Electric
• Alcoa Premiere
• (1962) The Jail
• (1962) Icarus Montgolfier Wright
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
• (1964) The Life Work of Juan Diaz
• (1969) The Picasso Summer
• The Curiosity Shop
• (1971) The Groon
• (1979) Gnomes
• (1982) The Electric Grandmother
• (1983) Something Wicked This Way Comes
• (1983) Quest
• (1985-1992) The Ray Bradbury Theater
• The Twilight Zone
• (1986) The Elevator
• (1992) '
• (1993) The Halloween Tree
• (1998) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

This list does not include adaptations by others of Bradbury's published stories.

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Radio

• World Security Workshop
• (1947) The Meadow
• Suspense
• (1947) Riabouchinska (original story)
• (1948) Summer Night (original story)
• (1948) The Screaming Woman (original story)
• (1968) Leviathan '99

This list does not include adaptations by others of Bradbury's published stories.

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Poetry

• (1975) When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
• (1977) Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns
• (1981) The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope
• (2002) '

Plays

• (1948) The Meadow
• (1963) The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics
• (1966) The Day It Rained Forever
• (1966) The Pedestrian
• (1972) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays
• (1975) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays
• (1986) Fahrenheit 451
• (1986) The Martian Chronicles
• (1988) Dandelion Wine
• (1988) Falling Upward
• (1988) '

Children

• (1955) Switch on the Night
• (1997) With Cat for Comforter
• (1997) Dogs Think That Every Day Is Christmas

Fable

• (1998) Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines

Non-fiction

• (1990) Zen in the Art of Writing
• (1991) '
• (2004) Conversations With Ray Bradbury
• (2005) '