Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man
A collection of three of Ray Bradbury’s finest science fiction novels: FAHRENHEIT 451, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN.Contains:FAHRENHEIT 451The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.THE MARTIAN CHRONICLESThe strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.THE ILLUSTRATED MANA classic collection of stories – all told on the skin of a man.
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RAY BRADBURY
3-Book Collection
Fahrenheit 451The Martian ChroniclesThe Illustrated Man
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Fahrenheit 451
First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1954
Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1967
HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy and Flamingo 1993
Voyager Classics 2001 and by Voyager 2004, 2013
Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1953
Cover design: designedbydavid.co.uk
The Martian Chronicles
First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1951 under the title The Silver Locusts and by Panther Books 1977, publication also entitled The Silver Locusts
Flamingo 1995 and by Voyager 2001, 2008
Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1951
Cover Images © NASA (map/texture); Shutterstock.com (figures).
Cover layout design: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2014
The Illustrated Man
First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd 1952
Published in paperback as a Flamingo Modern Classic in 1995
(reprinted 6 times) and by Voyager in 2008
Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1977
(reprinted 8 times)
Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1952
Cover illustration based on images © Shutterstock.com
Cover layout design: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2014
Ray Bradbury asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
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Source ISBNs:
Fahrenheit 451: 9780007496969
The Martian Chronicles: 9780007496976
The Illustrated Man: 9780007496983
Bundle Edition (Containing Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man) © April 2015 ISBN: 9780008118365
Version: 2015-02-24
Contents
Copyright
About the Author
Also by Ray Bradbury
About the Publisher
FAHRENHEIT 451
RAY BRADBURY
This one, with gratitude,is forDON CONGDON
FAHRENHEIT 451:the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns
by Ray Bradbury
March 12, 2003
What is there new to be said about Fahrenheit 451? I have written three or four introductions in the past thirty years trying to explain where the novel came from and how it finally arrived.
The first thing to be said is that I feel very fortunate to have survived long enough to join with people who have been paying attention to the novel in this past year.
The novel was a surprise then and is still a surprise to me.
I’ve always written at the top of my lungs and from some secret motives within. I have followed the advice of my good friend Federico Fellini who, when asked about his work, said, ‘Don’t tell me what I’m doing, I don’t want to know.’
The grand thing is to plunge ahead and see what your passion can reveal.
During the past fifty years I have written a short 25,000-word early version of the novel entitled The Fireman, which appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, and several years later added another 25,000 words for its publication by Ballantine Books.
Occupying a house with a new baby daughter, we had to consider my trying to find somewhere that was a bit quieter to do my work. I had no money at that time to rent an office, but wandering around UCLA one day I heard typing in the basement of the library and went down to see what was going on. I found that there was a room with twelve typewriters that could be rented for ten cents per half-hour. Excited at the prospect, I brought a bag of dimes with me and moved into the typing room.
I didn’t know what the various students were writing at their typewriters and they hardly knew, nor did I know, what I was writing.
If there is any excitement to the novel at all, I think it can best be explained by the fact that every two hours or so during the next week and a half I ran up- and downstairs and in and out of the stacks, grabbing books off the shelf, trying to find proper quotes to put in the book. I am not a researcher and my memory is not all that accurate for things that I’ve read in the past, so the quotes that you find in the book were those wonderful accidents where pulling a book off the shelf and opening it just anywhere at all I found an amazing sentence or paragraph that could occupy a position in the novel.
