Ray Bradbury
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself,...
Author
Pub. Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present...
28) Fahrenheit 451
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Series
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La historia de un sombrío y aterrador futuro Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un...
30) Super Pack
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Thirteen exciting stories by one of science fiction and fantasy's all time greats! Includes The Monster Maker, Morgue Ship, Lazarus Come Forth, Defense Mech, Lorelei of the Red Mist, The Creatures That Time Forgot, Asleep in Armageddon, A Little Journey, The Record, The Pendulum, Gorgono and Slith, The Piper, The Fight of the Good Ship Clarissa
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the worlds most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled...
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
A superlative new collection of twenty-two stories by the author of "The Martian Chronicles" includes the continuing saga of H.G. Well's time traveller and his Toynbee Convector, a ghost on the Orient Express, and a bored man who creates his own genuine Egyptian mummy
37) The sci-fi boys
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Legendary sci-fi directors Jackson, Lucas, Spielberg, etc, started out as kids making amateur movies inspired by Famous Monsters magazine. They grew up to take Hollywood by storm, inventing the art and technology for filming anything the mind can dream.
Pub. Date
2003.
Formats
Description
Over a period of four years, from 1992-1996, the world's best comic book artists adapted Grand Master Ray Bradbury's best stories in a series of different graphic novel formats. Now, for the first time, the best of these stories by the illustrators that comics fans crave are collected in a single affordable volume
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Pub. Date
2012.
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Description
Classic Bradbury, this collection of tales offers images that are as keen as a tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that stain the body. Featuring a new Introduction, "The Illustrated Man" presents 18 startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin.