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A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . . The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . . Now and Forever is a...

In un cottage sulla spiaggia di Venice, vicino a Los Angeles, un giovane scrittore sta lavorando a un nuovo romanzo quando, durante una notte di tempesta, i lampi e la pioggia scaricano davanti a lui una visione d'altri tempi: il fantasma di Constance Rattigan, la stella del cinema muto. Lo scrittore si trasforma in detective e comincia una discesa frenetica e poetica nei ricordi di attori, attrici, ciarlatani e strambi collezionisti che formano il pazzesco universo di Constance Rattigan.

Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 8 brings together classic tales of Mars and wonder from the golden age of speculative fiction, featuring A Martian Odyssey, Valley of Dreams, and “I, Mars” by Stanley G. Weinbaum and Ray Bradbury. This vintage science fiction collection is perfect for those who love early space exploration stories, imaginative alien worlds, and timeless retro sci-fi adventures.

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid...

Explore classic retro-futurist storytelling in Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 5, featuring unforgettable works by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Fredric Brown. This collection delivers suspense, imagination, and thought-provoking adventures from the golden age of science fiction.

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts...

Step into the golden era of imagination with Essential Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories, a powerful collection of visionary tales from the masters who defined modern sci-fi. Featuring unforgettable stories by Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert, John W. Campbell Jr., Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster, and E. E. Smith, this anthology captures the bold ideas, cosmic wonder, and speculative brilliance that shaped an entire genre.

Step into the vast imagination of classic speculative storytelling with The Pioneers of Science Fiction, a powerful anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in the genre’s history. This carefully curated collection brings together visionary works from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster, and H. G. Wells—authors who shaped modern science fiction and forever changed the way we imagine the future.

Step beyond the stars and into the boundless imagination of the genre’s greatest visionaries with The Masters of Science Fiction Short Stories—a powerful collection of timeless tales from the pioneers who shaped modern science fiction.

From the winner of the National Book Foundations' 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters comes a "sweet, funny . . . thought–provoking" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) collection of short stories. As in his most recent major fiction collections, One More for the Road (1999)...

He is an American treasure, a clear-eyed fantasist without peer, and a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. On subjects as diverse as fiction, the future, film, famous personalities, and more, Ray Bradbury has much to say, as only he can say it. Collected...

Nella serata che precede Ognissanti qualcosa di stupefacente è accaduto: un enorme albero è apparso e, dai suoi rami, pendono centinaia di zucche. Zucche in cui sono intagliati sorrisi inquietanti e occhi luminescenti che fissano otto ragazzini mascherati per l'occasione: Tom è vestito da scheletro, Henry da strega, Ralph è fasciato come una mummia, Georg è diventato uno spettro, J.J. scompigliato come un cavernicolo, Fred stracciato come un accattone, Wally indossa una maschera da grottesca, Pipkin... «Ehi, dov'è finito Pipkin?»...

Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury is a haunting and atmospheric science fiction tale that explores the thin boundary between consciousness and madness. After crash-landing on a desolate planetoid, space traveler Leonard Sale finds himself trapped in chilling isolation—until disembodied voices of ancient warriors begin to invade his mind.

There are very few writers who have ever written the sheer volume of epic (though not always in word count) tales, with a seemingly limitless stream of vibrant worlds, unique characters, and twisting-turning storylines that have kept thousands on the edges of their collective seats for a career spanning seven decades. But Ray Bradbury, the legend, did just that.

Green Town, anonimo centro dell'Illinois. Manca una settimana alla festa di Halloween, quando la sonnacchiosa cittadina viene sconvolta da un "carnevale nero". Un circo misterioso sembra promettere l'avverarsi di tutti i desideri, e l'eterna giovinezza. Saranno due amici tredicenni, James Nightshade e William Halloway, con tutta l'innocenza della loro età, a sconfiggere le forze del Male e a riscattare le anime dell'intera comunità. Ma impareranno anche troppo presto a fare i conti con i propri incubi.

Viaggiatori del tempo, carnevali gotici, automi viventi... e investigatori. Sono i protagonisti delle storie create dallo straordinario talento narrativo di Ray Bradbury, che non si è rivelato solo nella fantascienza, ma anche nel fantastico, nell'horror, nel weird. E nel poliziesco. Lo dimostrano le venti storie raccolte in questo volume: impeccabili trame gialle, molte delle quali hanno ispirato episodi della serie Alfred Hitchcock presenta; tra queste, Il piccolo assassino, che Bradbury riteneva il suo miglior racconto in assoluto.

Step into the visionary imagination of Ray Bradbury with this powerful collection of classic science fiction and speculative tales that helped define the Golden Age of the genre. The Selected Works of Ray Bradbury brings together seven unforgettable short stories that explore humanity’s hopes, fears, and moral crossroads against the vast backdrop of space, time, and the unknown.

A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury is a poignant and quietly powerful science fiction short story that explores faith, aging, and the human hunger for transcendence. Written during Bradbury’s golden early-1950s period, the story follows Mrs. Bellowes, an elderly widow who joins a group of older women on what is promised to be a miraculous voyage to Mars—and ultimately, a path to God.

In I, Mars, Ray Bradbury delivers a haunting psychological science-fiction tale about isolation, identity, and the terrifying persistence of the past. Set against the silent red landscapes of Mars, this mid-century classic explores what happens when technology refuses to let loneliness end—and when the future becomes trapped in an endless conversation with its own younger self.

Jonah of the Jove-Run by Ray Bradbury is a poignant, thought-provoking science fiction novella that explores the fragile boundary between human intuition and machine precision in the age of space exploration. Set in a future where humanity has colonized Mars and pushes onward toward Jupiter, the story centers on Nibley—an aging, underestimated navigator whose instinctive grasp of cosmic movement defies the cold logic of computers.