@booklet {5884, title = {"The Library"}, howpublished = {Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451}, year = {2006}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories\ (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 63-65.

}, month = {2006}, pages = {141-43}, publisher = {Gauntlet Press}, address = {Colorado Springs, CO}, abstract = {

Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a dictator tries to burn all the books in a library, but people have been memorizing them.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)}, editor = {Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller} } @booklet {6314, title = {"Long After Midnight"}, howpublished = {Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451}, year = {2006}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories\ (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 139-202.

}, month = {2006}, pages = {349-413}, publisher = {Gauntlet Press}, address = {Colorado Springs, CO}, abstract = {

Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a man is constantly worried about his books being burned.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)}, editor = {Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller} } @booklet {5261, title = {"The Cricket on the Hearth"}, howpublished = {One More for the Road}, year = {2002}, note = {

Rpt. in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright, Donn and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 219-48; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010) 111-20.\ 

}, month = {2002}, pages = {269-83}, publisher = {HarperCollins/Morrow}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of government spying.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {9453, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Toynbee Convector{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Playboy}, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 3-15.\ Rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), 1-11

}, month = {January 1984}, pages = {152-54, 158, 230, 232}, abstract = {

In a U.S. with all the problems of inequality, international political conflicts, a damaged environment, and so forth, a man fakes a trip to the future and on his return he announces that the human race has solved all its problems, which gives people the will to actually do so.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {2520, title = {"To the Chicago Abyss"}, howpublished = {The Wonderful Ice Cream and Other Plays}, year = {1972}, note = {

Can ed. (Toronto, ON, Canada: Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972), 127-61.

}, month = {1972}, pages = {127-61}, publisher = {Hart-Davis, MacGibbon}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia where the minor artifacts of the past are remembered by an old man, who is arrested for reminding people of the little things, Bradbury calls them \"mediocrities\", they used to have.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {1454, title = {Fahrenheit 451}, year = {1953}, note = {

Serialized in Playboy 1.4 - 6 (March - May 1953): 6-9, 18, 24-25, 28, 35, 41-42, 44, 46-48, 50; 22-23, 28-329, 32-33, 36, 38, 43-44, 49; 19-20, 24, 32, 35-38,43-46, 48-50. A special 200 copy limited edition was bound in Johns-Manville Quintera (asbestos). New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Rpt. without the asbestos binding New York: Simon \& Schuster, 1967, with an \“Introduction\” by Bradbury (9-15); illus. Joseph Mugnaini. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. 40th Anniversary Edition. New York: Simon \& Schuster, 1993. [50th anniversary ed.] New York: Simon \& Schuster, 2003 includes Bradbury\’s introduction to the 1967 edition (23-30), \“Burning Bright,\” his Foreword to the 1993 edition (11-21), and \“A New Introduction\” (5-9). Collector\’s Edition illus. Joseph Mugnaini with an \“Introduction\” by Eric S. Rabkin (3-8). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. The [60th Anniversary Edition]. with the subtitle Fahrenheit 451--The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. New York: Simon \& Schuster, 2013 has an \”Introduction\” by Neil Gaiman (xi-xvi). Critical ed. in Novels \& Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2021), 231-361, with a Chronology of Bradbury\’s life (843-61); a notes on the text (866-68); and textual notes (876-79), Bradbury\’s \“Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction\” (811-817), rpt. from The Nation\ 176 (May 2, 1953): 364-367;\ rpt. in The Nation, 150th anniversary edition (April 6, 2015): 101; and his \“No Man Is an Island\” (818-824), rpt. from his No Man Is an Island. Los Angeles, CA: National Women\’s Commission of Brandeis University, 1952. An early version was published as \“The Fireman.\” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 1.5 (February 1951): 4-61; rpt. in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 415-84; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 203-71. Some other stories in this volume, many of which were originally or previously published in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006, are related, some quite loosely, to Fahrenheit 451. See Tim Hamilton, Ray Bradbury\’s Fahrenheit 451. The Authorized Adaptation. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009 for a graphic novel version.

}, publisher = {Ballantine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian, anti-intellectual dystopia. Fahrenheit 451 is the burning point of paper.\ See 2007 Bradbury, \“The Library\” and 2010 Bradbury, \“Long After Midnight\” for related stories.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {1422, title = {"The Smile"}, howpublished = {Fantastic 1.1 }, year = {1952}, note = {

Rpt. Amazing Stories 41.5 (December 1967); 24-29; Perry Rhodan, no. 75 (July 1975): 132-; in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 139-43; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 267-72;and in Bradbury\’s A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010, 133-38.\ 

}, month = {Summer 1952}, pages = {90-95}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which even the best of the culture of the past is rejected.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {11468, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Other Foot{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New-Story Magazine: The Monthly Magazine for the Short Story}, volume = {No. 1}, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. in The Illustrated Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co., 1951), 43-67; and (New York: Bantam Books, 1952), 27-38.

}, month = {March 1951}, pages = {69-84}, abstract = {

The story depicts a Mars that is inhabited by all the African Americans who left the United States as a result of the violence that had been inflicted on them. A spaceship with whites on board arrives from an Earth that has been destroyed by their wars.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {1369, title = {"The Pedestrian"}, howpublished = {The Reporter (New York)}, volume = { 5.3 }, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.1 (February 1952): 89-93; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (British Edition) 2.4 (8) (May 1954): 125-28;\ in his The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953), 25-30; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 1 [(1954)]: 64-68; in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 39 (July 1955): 32-34; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 253-58; in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 121-25; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 191-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 191-95; in McSweeney\’s, no. 45 Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013): 143-48; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 678-682, with a Chronology (919-936), a Note on the Text (947) and Notes (971-972). Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951];\ and in\ Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind\’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 25-29. Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]. A dramatized version was published as The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1966.

}, month = {August 7, 1951}, pages = {39-40}, abstract = {

Dystopia. A pedestrian is arrested and committed to jail by automated police for walking at night rather than staying home watching television. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1963 Leiber.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {1342, title = {The Martian Chronicles}, year = {1950}, note = {

There are later editions with many variants. Among the most important are the U.K. edition, which was published as The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1951. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co., 1958 has illustrations by Karel Thole and William F. Nolan\’s \“Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Ray Bradbury\’s Books and Stories\” with notes on where the stories were later collected. \“The Martian Chronicles.\” Ray Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: The Library of America, 2021), 1-230 is based on the 1973 Doubleday edition and includes a chronology of Bradbury\’s life (843-861), a note on the text (863-866), textual notes (873-876), and Bradbury\’s \“A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles\” (809-810), rpt. from Rhodomagnetic Digest (May 1950):21. Other significant editions include the following: The Martian Chronicles. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974, with the book designed by Ernst Reichl. an introduction by Martin Gardner, and illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. The Collector\’s ed. with an introduction by Damon Knight and an illus. by Joseph Mugnaini. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989. The Martian Chronicles. The Fortieth Anniversary Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co. 1990.

The stories that were brought together to form the first edition are: \“The Million Year Picnic.\” Planet Stories (New York) 3.3 (Summer 1946): 95-100; \“The Off Season.\” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 33.2 (March 1948): 99-104; \“Mars Is Heaven!\” Planet Stories (New York) 3.12 (Fall 1948): 56-66; collected as \“The Third Expedition\” in The Martian Chronicles; rpt. as \“Welcome Brothers!\” Authentic Science Fiction (London), no. 29 (January 1953): 31-52; \“----And the Moon Be Still as Bright.\” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.2 (June 1948): 78-91; \“The Earth Men.\” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.3 (August 1948): 69-77; \“The Long Years.\” Maclean\’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 61.18 (September 15, 1948): 18-19, 38, 40, 42; rpt. as \“Dwellers in Silence.\” Planet Stories (New York) 4.2 (Spring 1949): 51-58; and in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 20 (December 1953): 22-29; \“The Silent Towns.\” Charm (New York) (March 1949): 111, 170-79; \“There will come soft rains.\” Colliers (New York) 125.18 (May 6, 1950): 34; rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 321-28, with an editor\’s note on 319; \“Impossible.\” Super Science Stories (Chicago, IL) 6.1 (November 1949): 72-79, 127-29 [Listed in Table of Contents of the version to be sold in Britain and Canada but not included]; rpt. as \“September 2005: The Martian\” in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 165-72; with an editors\’ note on 164; \“The Spring Night.\” The Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI) (Winter 1949): 32-34, collected in The Martian Chronicles as \“The Summer Night;\” \“I\’ll Not Ask for Wine.\” Maclean\’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 63.1 (January 1, 1950): 20-21, 30-32; rpt. as \“Ylla.\” Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 14 (1950): 20-29 and collected in The Martian Chronicles under that title; rpt. in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 165-86 with an editor\’s note on 163. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet; \“Carnival of Madness.\” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 36.1 (April 1950): 95-104, collected in The Martian Chronicles as \“Usher II\” [\“Usher II was dropped from The Silver Locusts]; \“Way in the Middle of the Air.\” Other Worlds Science Stories (Evanston, IL) 2.1 (July 1950): 142-53 (Bradbury made a play of this story, which was performed at the Desilu Gower Studios, Hollywood in August 1962); \“In This Sign.\” Imagination Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Evanston, IL) 2.2 (April 1951): 56-71 and collected as \“The Fire Balloons\” in The Silver Locusts (117-37). \“The Wilderness,\” which was first published in Today (April 6, 1952) and rev. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.7 (November 1952): 118-26, was first collected in The Martian Chronicles (London: The Science Fiction Book Club, 1953), 130-39), which otherwise follows The Silver Locusts. The New York: Avon, 1997 ed. replaces \“Way in the Middle of the Air\” with \“The Wilderness.\” Fortieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

}, month = {1950}, pages = {222 pp.}, publisher = {Doubleday \& Co.}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Martians have a vaguely described eutopian society before the arrival of people from earth but are killed by the chicken pox, for which they have no immunity. The various stories recount the settlement of Mars by people from Earth who bring all Earth\’s problems with them. But then there is war on Earth and settlers return. See Bradbury\’s article \“Where Are the Golden-Eyed Martians?\” West (Los Angeles Times) (March 1972): 14-15 for his comments on the exploration of Mars. A related story that was not included in the book is \“The Naming of Names.\” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 34.3 (August 1949): 137-44; rpt. in Great Science Fiction Stories (Flushing, NY), no. 3 (1966): 31-. A later Martian story is \“The Love Affair.\” In his The Love Affair A Short Story and Two Poems. Illus. Joe Mugnaini (Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982), 1-16; rpt. as \“The Love Affair: A Martian Chronicles Story.\” In The Planets. Ed. Byron Preiss (New York: Bantam Books, 1985), 104-12; rpt. without the subtitle in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 147-58; and in Mars Probe. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2002), 13-22. A satire on The Martian Chronicles is John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000), \“The Real Martian Chronicles.\” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 118.5 \& 6 (689) (May-June 2010): 86-91.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {1308, title = {"Pillar of Fire"}, howpublished = {Planet Stories (New York)}, volume = {3.11}, year = {1948}, note = {

Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co., 1959), 1: 141-69; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 101-38; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 579-616, with a Chronology (919-936, a Note on the Text (947, with a minor correction noted on 949) and Notes (968-969).

}, month = {Summer 1948}, pages = {38-58}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia in which there is no crime or violence and a man from the past starts murdering people. Bradbury considers it a precursor to Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} }