Guy Montag is the protagonist in which 1953 Ray Bradbury novel?
"fire hose on Beatty and burns him to death. He flees through the city streets to Faber's house, with another firehouse's mechanical hound and television network helicopters in hot pursuit. When he arrives at Faber's home, the old man tells Montag of vagabond book-lovers in the countryside. Montag then escapes to a local river, floats downstream and meets a group of older men who, to Montag's astonishment, have memorized entire books, preserving them orally until the law against books is overturned. The war begins. Montag watches helplessly as jet bombers fly overhead and attack the city with nuclear weapons. Montag's"
"""Let's All Kill Constance"", set in 1960. A Graveyard for Lunatics A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another tale of two cities is a mystery novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1990. It is the second in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator. The novel is set in 1954, when the narrator is working as a writer at a Hollywood motion picture studio, Maximus Films, and reflects Bradbury's experiences working on the movies ""It Came from Outer Space"", ""King of Kings"", and ""Something Wicked This"
"A Graveyard for Lunatics A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another tale of two cities is a mystery novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1990. It is the second in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator. The novel is set in 1954, when the narrator is working as a writer at a Hollywood motion picture studio, Maximus Films, and reflects Bradbury's experiences working on the movies ""It Came from Outer Space"", ""King of Kings"", and ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"". The studio shares a back"
"Horror"" #7 an uncredited version of this story is presented as ""The Beast From The Deep"", and has cover story art clearly derivative of the original story. An official comic adaptation was produced in 1993 in Topps Comics' Ray Bradbury Comics #3. The Fog Horn ""The Fog Horn"" is a 1951 science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, the first in his collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". The story was the basis for the 1953 film ""The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"". The plot follows Johnny, the protagonist and narrator, and his boss, McDunn, who are putting"
"The Fog Horn ""The Fog Horn"" is a 1951 science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, the first in his collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". The story was the basis for the 1953 film ""The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"". The plot follows Johnny, the protagonist and narrator, and his boss, McDunn, who are putting in a night's work at a remote lighthouse. The lighthouse's resonating fog horn attracts a sea monster. This is in fact the third time the monster has visited the lighthouse: he has been attracted by the same fog horn on the same"
"The Dragon (short story) ""The Dragon"" is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1955 in the magazine ""Esquire"". A limited edition (352 copies, signed and numbered or lettered) of the story was published by Footsteps Press in 1988. It appears in ""A Medicine for Melancholy"" (1959), ""R is for Rocket"" (1962), ""Classic Stories 1"" (1990), and ""Bradbury Stories"" (2003). The story concerns two knights who have a mission to slay a dragon. They describe the dragon as huge, fire-breathing, and horrific, having only one eye. They charge the dragon but fail, presumably dying"
"The Pedestrian ""The Pedestrian"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the August 7, 1951 issue of ""The Reporter"" by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. It is included in the collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"" (1953). The story features Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in 2053. In the city, roads have fallen into decay. Mead enjoys walking through the city at night, something which no one else does. ""In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another"
"in the attempt. The ""dragon"" is then revealed to be a steam train, and its single eye is the train's head light. The operators discuss the event, but go away without attempting to find the knights. The Dragon (short story) ""The Dragon"" is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1955 in the magazine ""Esquire"". A limited edition (352 copies, signed and numbered or lettered) of the story was published by Footsteps Press in 1988. It appears in ""A Medicine for Melancholy"" (1959), ""R is for Rocket"" (1962), ""Classic Stories 1"" (1990), and ""Bradbury"
"became suspicious of Bradbury and his friend for walking in an area where there were no pedestrians. Using this experience as inspiration he wrote ""The Pedestrian"", which he sent to his New York agent Don Congdon in March 1950. According to Eller, ""[the story's] composition in the early months of 1950 predates Bradbury's conception of 'The Fireman,'"" the short novella that would later evolve into ""Fahrenheit 451"". The story was made into an episode of ""The Ray Bradbury Theater"", starring David Ogden Stiers as Leonard Mead. The Pedestrian ""The Pedestrian"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray"
"Farewell Summer Farewell Summer is a novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published on October 17, 2006. It was his last novel released in his lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 novel ""Dandelion Wine"", and is set during an Indian summer in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in Green Town, Illinois, and the sexual awakening of Doug Spaulding as he turns 14. With ""Something Wicked This Way Comes"", they form a trilogy of novels inspired by Bradbury's childhood in Waukegan, Illinois. The first chapter, also titled ""Farewell Summer"", appeared"
"Dandelion Wine Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois, based upon Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. The novel developed from the short story ""Dandelion Wine"" which appeared in the June 1953 issue of ""Gourmet"" magazine. The title refers to a wine made with dandelion petals and other ingredients, commonly citrus fruit. In the story, dandelion wine, as made by the protagonist's grandfather, serves as a metaphor for packing all of the joys of summer into a single bottle. The main character of"
"of the novel, as well as in David Lean's 1948 film version. Oliver Cotton plays Monks in the U.S. 1982 Hallmark TV version of the film, where he actually has an encounter with Oliver (not to be confused with the Australian film version, which was released the same year). The character of Monks (aka Edward Leeford) was particularly elaborated upon in a 1999 mini-series starring Robert Lindsay as Fagin. Monks (played by Marc Warren) is shown as a pathetic, snivelling character, dominated by his ambitious mother Mrs. Leeford (Lindsay Duncan). At one stage he complains ""If I could live my"
"the night to meet the banshee, knowing that she intends to kill John/ William. At the last minute, Doug has second thoughts and unsuccessfully tries to convince John ""not"" to meet the banshee; however, John goes outside to confront her anyway. The television adaptation stars Charles Martin Smith as Doug (the Bradbury character) and Peter O'Toole as John (the character based on Huston). Banshee (short story) ""Banshee"" is an autobiographical short story written by Ray Bradbury in the September 1984 issue of Gallery, and later adapted by Bradbury as an episode of ""Ray Bradbury Theater"". The story is based on"
"Sun and Shadow (short story) ""Sun and Shadow"" is a short story by Ray Bradbury first published in 1953 in the American news magazine ""The Reporter"". Later that same year, Bradbury anthologized it in ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". In 1957, Quenian Press published a limited edition of 90 copies of the story for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. ""Sun and Shadow"" was one of Bradbury's short stories adapted into an episode of the television series ""The Ray Bradbury Theater"". In the episode, which aired on October 3, 1992, the title is misspelled ""Shaddow"" both on-screen"
"tape entitled ""Ray Bradbury's Chronicles: The Martian Episodes "" with some editions with three episodes and others with five. Several of the short stories in ""The Martian Chronicles"" were adapted into graphic novel-style stories in the EC Comics magazines, including ""There Will Come Soft Rains"" in ""Weird Fantasy"" #17, ""The Million-Year Picnic"" in ""Weird Fantasy"" #21 and ""The Silent Towns"" in ""Weird Fantasy"" #22. In 2011, Hill & Wang published ""Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation"" as a graphic novel, with art by Dennis Calero. The Martian Chronicles The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story"
"the young, had, bit by bit, censored some seventy-five separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel, which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, wrote to tell me of this exquisite irony. Judy-Lynn del Rey, one of the new Ballantine editors, is having the entire book reset and republished this summer with all the damns and hells back in place. Book-burning censorship, Bradbury would argue, was a side-effect of these two primary factors; this is consistent with Captain Beatty's speech to Montag about the history of the firemen. According to Bradbury, it is the people,"
"sequels followed: ""A Graveyard for Lunatics"" (1990), and ""Let's All Kill Constance"" (2003), advancing the writer's career to 1954 and 1960, respectively. Death Is a Lonely Business Death Is a Lonely Business is a mystery novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1985. The story, set in 1949, is about a series of murders that happen in Venice, California, then a declining seaside community in Los Angeles where Bradbury lived from 1942 to 1950. The main character and narrator (who never mentions his name) is a sensitive, modest writer, with a girlfriend studying in Mexico City. In the course"
"sailor take warning"""". Red Sky at Morning (Bradford novel) Red Sky at Morning is a 1968 novel by Richard Bradford. It was made into a 1971 film of the same name. The book follows Josh Arnold, a young man whose family relocates from Mobile, Alabama to Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico during World War II. It was regarded as a ""true delight"" (""Washington Post Book World"") and a ""novel of consequence"" (""New York Times Book Review""). Today, it is still regarded as a classic coming-of-age story. The title of the novel comes from a line in an ancient mariner's rhyme, """"Red"
"The Murderer (story) ""The Murderer"" (1953) is a short story by Ray Bradbury, published in his collection ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"". The scene is set in the near future, in an apparently sterile and clinical building. There is music coming from every direction; each person, it seems, is listening to classical music, talking on a phone, using a computer, or communicating constantly in some other way. Most people seem to be engaged in several of these activities at the same time. A psychologist exits the noisy environment to confront a patient confined to a small safe-room. The psychologist"
"Red Sky at Morning (Bradford novel) Red Sky at Morning is a 1968 novel by Richard Bradford. It was made into a 1971 film of the same name. The book follows Josh Arnold, a young man whose family relocates from Mobile, Alabama to Corazon Sagrado, New Mexico during World War II. It was regarded as a ""true delight"" (""Washington Post Book World"") and a ""novel of consequence"" (""New York Times Book Review""). Today, it is still regarded as a classic coming-of-age story. The title of the novel comes from a line in an ancient mariner's rhyme, """"Red sky at morning,"
"() It was adapted as an episode of the television series ""Ray Bradbury Theater"" (January 23, 1988) as ""The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl"" with Michael Ironside and Robert Vaughn. The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl ""The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl"" is a short story by Ray Bradbury. It was first published in ""Detective Book Magazine"" in November 1948 (cover date: Winter) as ""Touch and Go"". The story was re-titled and published as ""The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl"" in ""EQMM"" in January 1953. (Cover image: ) Mr. Acton begins the"
"""Death Is a Lonely Business"", and its two sequels, ""A Graveyard for Lunatics"" and ""Let's All Kill Constance"". A Memory of Murder A Memory of Murder (1984) is a collection of fifteen mystery short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. They were originally published from 1944 to 1948 in pulp magazines owned by Popular Publications, Inc. that specialized in detective and crime fiction. Bradbury tried his hand in the genre but found the results unsatisfactory. He referred to the stories as ""the walking wounded"" in his introduction to ""A Memory of Murder"". Although Bradbury would acquire the reprint rights to"
"wall with an adjoining cemetery (as Paramount Studios really does with Hollywood Forever Cemetery), and most of the story takes place in those two locations. Two of the novel's characters, stop motion animator Roy Holdstrom and autocratic director Fritz Wong, were based on Bradbury's friends Ray Harryhausen and Fritz Lang + James Wong Howe. Another character, the shy, blond-haired autograph collector Clarence, may be an alternate autobiographical portrait of Bradbury, who as a teenager waited outside Hollywood studios for glimpses of movie stars. It was preceded by the novel ""Death Is a Lonely Business"", set in 1949, and followed by"
"Urged by a publisher at Ballantine Books to double the length of his story to make a novel, Bradbury returned to the same typing room and expanded his work into ""Fahrenheit 451"", again taking just nine days. The fixup was published by Ballantine in 1953. Bradbury has supplemented the novel with various front and back matter, including a 1979 coda, a 1982 afterword, a 1993 foreword, and several introductions. The first U.S. printing was a paperback version from October 1953 by The Ballantine Publishing Group. Shortly after the paperback, a hardback version was released that included a special edition of"
"The Illustrated Man The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of ""the Illustrated Man"", a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated and each tell"
"gambit or classic psychoanalytic struggle, invoking as Bradbury's fiction often does, Lacanian three orders of Imaginary, Symbolic and Real. It pits the protagonist and his being locked into the natural order of things will he join his mother's domain, ascend to her adjoining throne and accept her rules and assumptions against his journey to find an external world. Attachment theory is insinuated into the story. Jack-in-the-Box (short story) Jack-in-the-Box is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury, first published as part of the 1947 short story collection ""Dark Carnival"". It was later collected in the magazine Avon Fantasy Reader"
"named Harold and his recollection of a traumatic experience from his childhood where a close friend of his named Tally drowns in the lake where they often played together. Her body was never found. Visiting the lake once more as an adult alongside his newlywed wife, he finds that a fisherman has recovered the wet corpse of a child who is soon revealed to be that of his beloved Tally. The Lake (short story) The Lake is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the May 1944 edition of Weird Tales, and later collected"
"Death Is a Lonely Business Death Is a Lonely Business is a mystery novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published in 1985. The story, set in 1949, is about a series of murders that happen in Venice, California, then a declining seaside community in Los Angeles where Bradbury lived from 1942 to 1950. The main character and narrator (who never mentions his name) is a sensitive, modest writer, with a girlfriend studying in Mexico City. In the course of the story he meets Elmo Crumley, a detective who helps him solve the mystery behind all the semi-murders occurring among a"
"This story can be used to weight pros and cons, as a theme. One of the main characters in this story is Abdullah Qassim he is the one that is building the machine and he also tried to reach the other characters room to sneak into them so he can steal the money from them, so he has a big role in the short story. The Flying Machine (short story) ""The Flying Machine"" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1953. Bradbury also adapted the tale into a that same year. This story is set in China many"
"on my corner"", ""A Few Good Women"", ""Deep Heet!"", and ""Remain Silent"", among many others. In the novel ""Strange Angel"", author George Pendel describes Clifton's as ""a bizarre experience"", and a ""kitsch cafeteria provided millions of low-priced meals to the out-of-work and destitute during the darkest days of the depression"", and that it provided a ""surreal sanctuary from a broken world"". Science fiction author Ray Bradbury ate at Clifton's as a struggling writer, often taking advantage of the policy that anyone who couldn't afford to pay didn't have to, and in the 1930s attended meetings of the Los Angeles Science"
"in her for a while. However, Ann has no interest in Tom. Tom is aware of Ann's inconsistent behaviour during the dance. The story ends with Cecy becoming attracted to Tom and trying to arrange a meeting with Tom and her human form through Ann. Boucher and McComas described the story as one of Bradbury's ""reassuringly lovely flights of fancy"". The story was included in several of Bradbury's short story collections: This story was later assimilated into Bradbury's 2003 fix-up novel ""From the Dust Returned"". The April Witch ""The April Witch"" is a 1952 fantasy short story by Ray Bradbury."
"A Memory of Murder A Memory of Murder (1984) is a collection of fifteen mystery short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. They were originally published from 1944 to 1948 in pulp magazines owned by Popular Publications, Inc. that specialized in detective and crime fiction. Bradbury tried his hand in the genre but found the results unsatisfactory. He referred to the stories as ""the walking wounded"" in his introduction to ""A Memory of Murder"". Although Bradbury would acquire the reprint rights to ""The Small Assassin"" and ""Wake for the Living"" (retitled ""The Coffin"") for his first collection, ""Dark Carnival"", Popular"
"sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was ""not"" fiction. This story echoes Mildred's ""Seashell ear-thimbles"" (i.e., a brand of in-ear headphones) that act as an emotional barrier between her and Montag. In a 2007 interview, Bradbury maintained that people misinterpret his book and that ""Fahrenheit 451"" is really a statement on how mass media like television marginalizes the reading of literature. Regarding minorities, he wrote in his 1979 Coda:There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about"