S is for Space

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name = S is for Space
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Ray Bradbury
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction short stories
publisher = Doubleday & Company
release_date = 1966
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 239 pp
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"S is for Space" (1966) is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Ray Bradbury. [Publisher: Bantam Books (1966). Language: English. ISBN-10: 055311932X ISBN-13: 978-0553119329] It was compiled for the Young Adult sections of libraries.

Contents

* "Chrysalis": A science-fiction story in which three men anxiously watch their fellow-scientist as he is encased in a mysterious green chrysalis. They eventually come to believe he is undergoing metamorphosis inside the chrysalis.
* "Pillar of Fire": A science-fiction/horror short novel. Set in the year 2349, it depicts a Utopian society in which all corpses are incinerated for hygienic reasons. All horror literature has also been burned to produce a healthier mindset. When his grave is disturbed, a vampire infiltrates the utopia and launches a vendetta to restore fear.
* "Zero Hour": A science-fiction story, involving a world-wide befriending of children by sinister aliens.
* "The Man": A compelling science-fiction parable. A rocket ship lands on an isolated planet, expecting an astounded welcome. However, they find they have been preceded by a much more important Visitor...
* "Time in Thy Flight": A science fiction story. A high-school teacher takes three children on a field-trip in a time machine.
* "The Pedestrian": A science-fiction story about a society addicted to television.
* "Hail and Farewell": A fantasy story concerning a middle-aged man who never physically aged past his pre-adolescence.
* "Invisible Boy": A comical story about an old woman who convinces a boy she has turned him invisible.
* "Come into My Cellar": A science-fiction story about mushrooms and alien invasions.
* "The Million-Year Picnic": A science-fiction story in which a family travels to an unsullied Mars to escape a ravaged Earth.
* "The Screaming Woman": A mystery/suspense story, describing a young girl who tries to procure help in digging up a woman buried in an empty lot.
* "The Smile": A science-fiction story describing a world devastated by nuclear war, whose inhabitants systematically destroy artifacts of the past. The story touches on one boy who is enchanted by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
* "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"
* "The Trolley": An idyllic story about the last trolley-ride in a small town.
* "The Flying Machine": A story set in ancient China, whose Emperor discovers a peasant has invented a flying-machine.
* "Icarus Montgolfier Wright": A story concerning the first man to fly a rocket ship.

Footnotes

References

*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=63 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1