Ray Bradbury Books In Order
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Death is a Lonely Business | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Graveyard for Lunatics | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Let's All Kill Constance | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Green Town Books
Dandelion Wine | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Farewell Summer | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Morning, Summer Night | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Fahrenheit 451 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Halloween Tree | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Green Shadows, White Whale | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Dust Returned | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Dark Carnival | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Martian Chronicles | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Illustrated Man | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Apples of the Sun | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The October Country | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Day It Rained Forever | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Medicine for Melancholy | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Small Assassin | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
R Is for Rocket | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Machineries of Joy | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vintage Bradbury | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Autumn People | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twice 22 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tomorrow Midnight | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
S is for Space | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fever Dream And Other Fantasies | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Sing the Body Electric | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ray Bradbury | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Long After Midnight | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stories of Ray Bradbury | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Circus and the Electrocution | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dinosaur Tales | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Memory of Murder | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Toynbee Convector | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classic Stories 2 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quicker Than the Eye | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driving Blind | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One More for the Road | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories Volume 2 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cat's Pajamas | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Now and Forever | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We'll Always Have Paris | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Pleasure to Burn | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killer, Come Back To Me | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Venus Remembered | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Poems | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skeletons | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Homecoming | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Ferris | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
There Will Come Soft Rains | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Veldt | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Sound of Thunder | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fog Horn | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Playground | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mummies of Guanajuato | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Timeless Spring | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Love Affair | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fever Dream | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thing at the Top of the Stairs | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dragon Who Ate His Tail | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marionettes, Inc. | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Defense Mech | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Why Man Explores | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Art of Playboy | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zen in the Art of Writing | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Folon's Folons | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Yestermorrow | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conversations with Ray Bradbury | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bradbury Speaks | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Match to Flame | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Listen to the Echoes | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Poetry Books
When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
This Attic Where the Meadow Greens | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Screenplays/Plays Books
Kaleidoscope | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nemo! | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Star Science Fiction Books
Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Science Fiction Stories 3 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories for the Dead of Night | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghoul Keepers | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bedside Playboy | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Microcosmic God | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Untamed | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
21 Great Stories | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nova 1 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Young Demons | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Generation | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gooseflesh | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond Midnight | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Extraterrestrial Intelligence | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Late Great Future | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Legacies | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rod Serling's Other Worlds | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts That Haunt You | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weekend Book of Science Fiction | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scaremongers | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
13 Horrors of Halloween | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fourth Planet from the Sun | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monster Book of Monsters | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Science Fiction Stories | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of the Occult | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Great Baseball Stories | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Monsters in Our Midst | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Witch | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sea-Cursed | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Space Movies | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Screams | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery Stories | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 3 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time Machines | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
October Dreams | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writing Los Angeles | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder On The Railways | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Delicacies | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Tangled Web | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Masques V | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Shorts | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Like Water for Quarks | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Carnivàle of Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Psychos | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Other Worlds | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fantastic Stories Presents | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Field of Fantasies | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grave Predictions | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Mars | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science Fiction Collection #1 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flight or Fright | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Science Fiction Collection | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
One Hundred | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An author of great importance, he was well regarded during his lifetime, leaving behind a legacy for years to come. American author Ray Bradbury was famous for his unique brand of science-fiction that helped to define and progress the genre as a whole. An inspiration to his many contemporaries, the mark he made will not be forgotten.
Early and Personal Life
Born in 1920 on the 22nd of August, Ray Bradbury was to become a science-fiction writer of great repute over the following years. Ray Douglas Bradbury, named after the famous actor ‘Douglas Fairbanks’, he was brought up in Waukegan, Illinois in the United States. His parents were Esther, a Swedish immigrant, and Leonard Bradbury who worked as a telephone line-man. It was the period of his childhood that was to provide a great deal of inspiration to his work, whilst also creating the period he was going to be working within and throughout. Using a lot of figures from his childhood, he’d use his extensive imagination to create new and involving worlds to immerse himself and his characters within.
Attending Los Angeles High School he soon found others with the same interests as him in the form of the ‘Los Angeles Science Fiction Society’ which he discovered at sixteen. Finding kindred spirits with the same interests as him, he quickly worked on developing his stories giving them both substance and texture. This soon allowed him to progress to Hollywood and television, as he also wrote scripts that were adapted into large-scale productions. Being one of the most prominent voices in science-fiction, he would help create a unique and powerful legacy.
Writing Career
To start with Ray Bradbury would write short science-fiction stories which he’d attempt to get published, but to no avail. Heading to New York on the Greyhound bus for the night after the birth of his first child, he tried to approach many publishers, but they all turned him away. Finally he spoke to a publisher named Walter Bradbury who, besides being no relation, told him to string all his stories together. This would be the genesis of ‘The Martian Chronicles’, which he turned out an outline of that night in the nearby YMCA, and subsequently got a check for from a publisher.
With his first novel published he quickly went on to write more, most notably his ‘Fahrenheit 451’ which was to make his name lasting long after his death. This was one of the books that allowed science-fiction to be taken seriously as a genre and creative medium, as typically in the past it was unfairly maligned as a somewhat low-grade genre. Fighting against this, Bradbury helped to propel the genre forwards as a whole creating a resurgence in interest for it allowing people to see the true potential for it as a creative medium.
Later he would work in film and television, creating some much beloved and equally inspiring work that was visually and creatively inventive. Comics were also made from his work, using the much inspired visual imagery he’d helped to birth from the outset of his career. Ray Bradbury left behind a hugely influential and inspirational career that helped change the way people view science-fiction as a whole.
The Martian Chronicles
Written originally as a collection of science-fiction short stories, this was weaved together so as to take place upon Mars. Initially published in 1950, it was to mark the beginning of a long and illustrious career from author Ray Bradbury. Set around the experiences of a group of Mar’s colonists, it was to be unlike anything anyone had seen before.
With visions of Mars, it charts mankind’s reactions to these intense and awesome scenes as they look beyond to an even greater understanding of the universe. Continually attempting to colonize the planet, there are few people to begin with, as there was a disease that wiped many out beforehand that was simply named the Great Loneliness, as their numbers on their home-world dwindled going down and down. At first they are unwelcome in their new-world though, as they feel their alien presence in their new surroundings, unable to feel grounded. The Martians themselves feel them to be strange and unnatural and, with their shape-changing abilities, seek to lock them up quickly and promptly. Soon more people in rockets arrive though to inhabit this space, as they begin to take over with inevitable conflict to follow. They must overcome their old prejudices if they want to start anew. Something which may be harder than they previously expected, as they attempt to fight the hallucinations projected by the Martians there. Will they work together to inhabit this new world and make peace, or will conflict overcome them all? Can they survive the new test placed upon them, or is it going to prove too much over time? What will become of the humans during the Martian Chronicles?
Fahrenheit 451
Perhaps the most famous and influential of all Ray Bradbury’s novels, Fahrenheit 451 still holds up today, just as it did back then making the impact that it caused when first published. First published in 1953, it was a notorious book with the power to shock readers now just as it did back then. Using satire and humor to illustrate its more serious points, it works to expose people’s prejudices in the process, along with the many dangers of conformity and censorship.
Featuring Guy Montag as a fireman living in a dystopic future, it’s his job to burn any books that are found, as reading is deemed unlawful. He isn’t happy with his marriage though, as he soon suspects books may be to blame for his misery, because there could potentially be some hidden within his home. It is the job of the system to weed out these troublesome factors and prevent people from reading, as that is an activity seen as dangerous to the status-quo. Taking aim at the dangers of conformist thinking and anti-intellectualism, this book sits with many other greats such as ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ with its ability to both shock and inspire its readers.
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