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"1. The Fog Horn" handler om et havuhyre måske en søslange som tiltrækkes af et tågehorns hylen og forsøger at gøre kur til et fyrtårn.
"2. The Pedestrian" handler om en mand, der bliver samlet op af politiet og kørt til forvaring, fordi han går en tur på gaden i stedet for at se fjernsyn som alle andre gør.
"3. The April Witch" handler om en forårsheks Cecy Elliott, der leger med et ungt pars følelser, men uden helt at kunne styre dem.
"4. The Wilderness" handler om Janice og Leonora, der venter spændt på at rejse til Mars og blive nybyggerkoner.
"5. The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" handler om en morder, der bliver sindssyg af at fjerne fingeraftryk på gerningsstedet.
"6. Invisible Boy" handler om Den gamle Dame, der forsøger at holde på den lille dreng Charlie med magi. Hun gør ham usynlig, bilder hun ham ind, eller er det altsammen bare noget hun bilder sig selv ind?
"7. The Flying Machine" handler om en kejser, der henretter en mand, der har opfundet en flyvemaskine. Kejseren ser luftkrig som en selvfølgelig udvikling og undertrykker opfindelsen med al den fornødne brutalitet.
"8. The Murderer" handler om en mand der får nok af evindelige afbrydelser - i dag ville det hedde sms, mail og reklamer - og myrder sin radio, fjernsyn, telefoner og andre støjsendere.
"9. The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind" handler om to byer, der har gang i et ruinerende dyrt kapløb men ender med en fælles løsning.
"10. I See You Never" handler om en mexikansk indvandrer Mr. Ramirez, der bliver nappet af politiet og sendt tilbage til Mexico.
"11. Embroidery" handler om tre damer, der broderer løs mens et atombombeeksperiment løber løbsk og tilintetgør dem som et broderi der pilles op.
"12. The Big Black and White Game" handler om et brutal spil baseball mellem sorte som Big Poe og hvide som Jimmie Cosner.
"13. A Sound of Thunder" handler om en tidsrejse med konsekvenser for Eckels og Travis grundet sommerfugleeffekten.
"14. The Great Wide World over There" handler om en kvinde, der aldrig har lært at læse eller skrive og bor langt langt ude på landet og brændende ønsker sig post.
"15. Powerhouse" handler om en kvinde, der får en religiøs oplevelse af at overnatte ved en summende transformatorstation.
"16. En La Noche" handler om en beboelsesejendom hvor en af beboerne højlydt jamrer og skriger vedvarende over at manden er indkaldt til hæren. Til sidst ofrer en af de andre mænd i ejendommen sig og trøster hende.
"17. Sun and Shadow" handler om Ricardo, der forhindrer en flok modefotografer og modeller i at bruge hans by som pitoresk billedbaggrund ved at smide bukserne.
"18. The Meadow" handler om nattevagten Smith i en filmkulisseby, der skal rives ned. Det er han meget imod og producenten Douglas lader sig overbevise.
"19. The Garbage Collector" handler om en skraldemand, som overvejer at kvitte jobbet, da han får instrukser for at indsamle lig efter et atomangreb.
"20. The Great Fire" handler om Marianne på 18 år, der bor midlertidigt ved noget familie. De tror at det er den samme unge mand, der kommer og henter hende hver aften, men nej!
"21. Hail and Farewell" handler om Willie, der stadig på en prik ligner en knægt på 12 år, selv om han er 43 år. For ikke at blive set på som underlig, finder han et nyt hold forældre ca hvert tredje år.
"22. The Golden Apples of the Sun" handler om en rejse til solen for at hente en kopfuld solstof. Det lykkes fint.
Små poetiske og søde noveller. Ikke nær dem alle sammen er science fiction.
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Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. Short Stories. Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here are thirty-two of his most famous tales-prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry that Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits that spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safari, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own. Track List for The Golden Apples of the Sun: Disc 1 "The Fog Horn"-Track 1 "The April Witch"-Track 8 "The Wilderness"-Track 16 "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl"-Track 23 Disc 2 "The Flying Machine"-Track 6 "The Murderer"-Track 10 "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind"-Track 17 "I See You Never"-Track 21 "Embroidery"-Track 24 Disc 3 "The Big Black and White Game"-Track 1 "The Great Wide World Over There"-Track 9 "Powerhouse"-Track 18 Disc 4 "En La Noche"-Track 1 "Sun and Shadow"-Track 4 "The Meadow"-Track 10 "The Garbage Collector"-Track 22 Disc 5 "The Great Fire"-Track 1 "The Golden Apples of the Sun"-Track 6 "R Is for Rocket"-Track 12 "The End of the Beginning"-Track 24 Disc 6 "The Rocket"-Track 1 "The Rocket Man"-Track 9 "A Sound of Thunder"-Track 18 Disc 7 "The Long Rain"-Track 3 "The Exiles"-Track 13 "Here There Be Tygers"-Track 24 Disc 8 "The Strawberry Window"-Track 10 "The Dragon"-Track 18 "Frost and Fire"-Track 20 Disc 10 "Uncle Einar"-Track 7 "The Time Machine"-Track 14 "The Sound of Summer Running"-Track 21.… (more)
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There is a 2014 book that includes a number of stories in addition to the original 22 stories from the original edition. (It looks like Golden Apples merged with R is for Rocket) My edition is the 1970 Bantam paperback. It has a nice pen and ink illusration for each story. The artist isn't identified, but it looks like the work of Joe Mugnaini who has illustarted other Bradbury books. I enjoyed looking at the illustrations both before and after the story to see what the artist was capturing.
A few comments. "The Fog Horn" is wonderful classic Bradbury. "The April Witch" came close to crossing the line of the creepy factor when a 19 year old girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl and does things she wouldn't otherwise have done. "The Wilderness" is a strange piece of the Martian Chronicles. The future equivalent of mail order brides to Mars. "Mars Needs Women!" Actually it is more than that. While reading it I was also struck by the thought, not for the first time, that some of Bradbury's stories might work best when read aloud, somewhat slowly. So, much of this story I read slowly, mouthing pssages as if I was reading it aloud in my head, and it gave me a very different feeling of the writing here ... a good feeling.
There were a couple oddball stories in here that I wasn't wild about, like "The Fruit At the Bottom of the Bowl" where a man goes looney tunes after murdering the man who is going to run off with his wife, and the odd "Invisible Boy." Both are mainstream stories, nothing fantasy or otherwise in them although "Invisible Boy" pretends there is magic. "The Murderer" is a rather smart prediction and observation on society's cell-phone mania (although in this case the phones are all on wrist-radios). In the story the everywhere people on their phones and piped in music drives a man to begin "murdering" the devices.
Bradbury shows what a master of the short form he can be with a story like "Embroidery." Three pages long, simple idea, and very powerful. Three women are on a porch working on their embroidery and talking and we see, waiting for 5 O'clock ... the reader listens and waits with them.
"A Sound of Thunder" is a classic tale that inspired the phrase "The Butterfly Effect."
Unfortunately there were several stories in the collection I disliked or didn't care for or quite understand what Bradbury was going for. It marred the shine of the stronger stories. Overall the collection was worth reading.
The included stories of the original collection are:
• The Fog Horn • (1951) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Pedestrian • (1951) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The April Witch • (1952) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Wilderness • (1952) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl • (1948) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Invisible Boy • (1945) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Flying Machine • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Murderer • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• I See You Never • (1947) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Embroidery • (1951) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Big Black and White Game • (1945) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• A Sound of Thunder • (1952) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Great Wide World Over There • (1952) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Powerhouse • (1948) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• En La Noche • (1952) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Sun and Shadow • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Meadow • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Garbage Collector • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Great Fire • (1949) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Hail and Farewell • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Golden Apples of the Sun • (1953) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
"The Murderer," which I found to be so appropriate to life today! This is one of few stories that hasn't got an initial publication date noted, but I guess it would be early 1950. Even though the technology that drives the main character to
"Sun and Shadow," which made me feel guilty about the times I've found life that is on the verge of abject poverty "picturesque."
And I also enjoyed;
"The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind," which illustrates zero-sum-game quite nicely all the while pretending to be a fairytale.
"The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl," which made me shiver with delighted horror.
"The Great Wide World Over There," which make me quite sad, though filled me with a longing to write letters to strangers who live in remote places.
And one that I couldn't decide if I loved for itself, or just because it features a lighthouse. I moved to Pittsburgh from a seaside town just south of Boston last year and, besides my two adult children, I miss the lighthouses the most. The story is the first in the book, "The Fog Horn."
One story that stood out is "The Murderer", because it was science
There are some seminal stories here, such as "A Sound of Thunder", which were really influential in the history of science-fiction (and even perhaps of science, as it introduced what came to be called the "butterfly effect" in chaos theory), and which everyone needs to read in order to get all the pop culture references. Another significant story here, or at least the longest, is "Frost and Fire", which is enormously inventive but not entirely successful. It tells the story of a race of people descended from humans crash-landed on Mercury, who've evolved as a result of the extreme temperatures of the planet's day and night cycle to an extremely fast-paced, eight-day lifespan. They've also evolved racial memory, and the main character decides to try to return to the one remaining crashed spaceship to see if there are any keys to returning to their ancestors longer, more slowly-paced way of life. This is an interesting idea, but it gets bogged down for long stretches in the middle with pointless romantic rivalries and battles with a competing tribe who live in better caves that extend their lifespan an extra few days.
In general, this is a solid collection, with some of Bradbury's best stories, but not one of his best books on the whole. But, like almost everything he wrote, definitely worth at least a read.
Before reading Bradbury in the 70's, I was a sort of literary snob about only spending time reading the classics and other high quality work. To me, Science Fiction did not fit that criteria, being escapist reading at best. But my exposure to Bradbury changed that juvenile perception and judgment and opened up an entirely new area of writing to read, enjoy and even learn from. From this experience, I think I largely overcame my snob's approach to reading and learned that the real definition of a good book is that it is one that keeps the reader engaged, makes him want to see what the next word is, what the next chapter holds and where the story leads. It is a book that causes the reader to sigh when the last page is read, opening the hope that the next book will be just as good.
FromThe Golden Apples, Bradbury went on to write many wonderful books and his influence went on to open me to works that would have escaped m notice had I not started with the best.
The Foghorn – 3 stars
The April Witch – 3
The Wilderness – 3.5
The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl – 3.5
The Flying Machine – 3
The Murderer – 5
The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind – 3
I See You Never –3
Embroidery – 2
The Big Black and White Game – 1
The Great Wide World Over There – 3
Powerhouse – 4
En la Noche – 3.5
Sun and Shadow – 4
The Meadow – 3
The Garbage Collector – 3
The Great Fire – 3
Hail and Farewell – 3
The Golden Apples of the Sun – 4
R is for Rocket – 4
The End of the Beginning – 4
The Rocket – 4
The Rocket Man – 4
A Sound of Thunder – 3.5
The Long Rain – 4
The Exiles – 4
Here There Be Tygers – 2
The Strawberry Window – 3
The Dragon – 3.5
Frost and Fire – 5
Uncle Einar – 4
The Time Machine – 3.5
The Sound of Summer Running – 3.5
Favorites include:
"The Fog
"The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" -- A murderer has a breakdown imagining all of the places he might have left his fingerprints.
"The Great Wide World Over There" -- A valuable lesson is learned in this amusing yarn. Yes, the receiving of mail can make you feel important, but it does you no good if you cannot read it.
"The Meadow" -- An anti-war rant disguised as a short story about a movie studio night watchman who follows behind a demolition crew, rebuilding all that they destroy.
"The Great Fire" -- In an O. Henry-esque twist, a burdened couple discover that perhaps their daughter isn't nearly as engaged as they thought.
"Hail and Farewell" -- An old man trapped in a young child's body pulls an elaborate con on a string of unsuspecting parents who adopt him.
And then, my personal favorite, "A Sound of Thunder", in which a major corporation offers hunters the opportunity to go back in time and hunt prehistoric game.
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Omslaget viser en cirkel med mange mærkelige væsener i, nogle af dem menneskelige, nogle af dem klart ikke.
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Bogen er illustreret med nogle flotte tegninger, men der står ikke nogen angivelse af kunstneren nogen steder
Side 3: I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life.
Side 54: Some other man who, seeing you, will build a thing of bright papaers and bamboo like this. But the other man will have an evil face and an evil heart, and the beauty will be gone. It is this man I fear.
Side 55: Hold your tongue. It was all a dream, a most sorrowful and beautiful dream. And that farmer in the distant field who also saw, tell him it would pay him to consider it only a vision. If ever the word passes around, you and the farmer die within the hour.
Side 55: What is the life of one man against those of a million others. I must take solace from that thought.
Side 70: Mr. Ramirez gazed at his feet as it they had carried him into all this trouble.
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