S is for Space

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S is for Space
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction short stories
Publisher	Doubleday & Company
Publication date	1966
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	239 pp
ISBN	NA

S is for Space (1966) is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Ray Bradbury.^[1] It was compiled for the Young Adult sections of libraries.

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• "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.

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[edit] References

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 63. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.