Below, we select and introduce our pick of ten of Bradbury’s best short stories. If these whet your appetite for more, we thoroughly recommendThe Stories of Ray Bradbury. 1. ‘A Sound of Thunder’. A time-travel story about how changing the past could bring ab...
it’s Ray Bradbury. In“The Veldt,”George and Lydia Hadley have bought an automated house that comes with a “nursey,” or a virtual reality room. Worried about the nursery’s effect on the kids, George and Lydia think about turning off the nursey — but the ...
47. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury Why we love it: This story takes place in 2053 and Ray Bradbury has a way of making the future feel like the present. In a story written long ago, he reminds us how important it is to not lose our humanity. 48. The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker ...
The Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of 22 short stories by Ray Bradbury; it was first published in 1953. The book's namesake is one of the short stories in the collection. Bradbury drew the title for the story from the last line of the final stanza to W. B. Yeats' poem ...
47. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury “They walked down the hall of their HappyLife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed. This house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them.” ...
The Necklace is a classic short story that’s been adapted to stage and film many times. It’s a story about vanity and honesty. The Sound of Thunderby Ray Bradbury You may have seen or heard of the not-great movie adaptation of The Sound of Thunder that came out a while ago, but ...
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation was inaugurated in 1992. Here are 10 of the best Ray Bradbury Award-winning movies that have taken home the honor!
With the weight of a novel stripped away, great short stories strike directly at the heart of their topics. Often maligned as the novel’s poor cousin, the short story medium has produced some of the most beloved works of fiction. From the eerily-accurate predictions of Ray Bradbury to the...
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury – While it was also listed first, this story is known for its darker elements and could be argued against here; however, some find humor in its ironic undertones relating to technology’s impact on family dynamics during the war era (1950 when originally publi...
Adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel about a future society that has banned all reading material and the job of the firemen is to keep the fires at 451 degrees: the temperature that paper burns. A fireman begins to re-think his job when he meets a book-loving girl. Released: 1966 Direct...