''R is for Rocket'' (1962) is a
short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...
collection by American writer
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury ( ; August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, Horror fiction, horr ...
, compiled for
Young Adult
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library sections. It contains fifteen stories from earlier Bradbury collections, and two previously uncollected stories.
Contents
# "R is for Rocket" (first published as "King of the Gray Spaces")
# "The End of the Beginning"
# "
The Fog Horn"
# "
The Rocket"
# "
The Rocket Man"
# "The Golden Apples of the Sun"
# "
A Sound of Thunder
"A Sound of Thunder" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published in ''Collier's'' magazine on June 28, 1952, and later in Bradbury's 1953 collection '' The Golden Apples of the Sun''.
Plot summary
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# "
The Long Rain"
# "
The Exiles"
# "
Here There Be Tygers"
# "The Strawberry Window"
# "
The Dragon"
# "The Gift"
# "
Frost and Fire"
# "Uncle Einar"
# "The Time Machine"
# "The Sound of Summer Running"
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1962 short story collections
Short story collections by Ray Bradbury
Doubleday (publisher) books
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