A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (41 page)
R
AY
B
RADBURY
, the author of more than thirty books, is the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Some of his best-known works are
Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine,
and
Something Wicked This Way Comes.
A writer for both theater and cinema, he has adapted sixty-five of his stories for television’s
The Ray Bradbury Theater.
He won an Emmy for his teleplay of
The Halloween Trees
and was nominated for an Academy Award. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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C
ARNIVAL
F
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ALLOWEEN
T
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J
OURNEY TO
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AR
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ETAPHOR
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ALEIDOSCOPE
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ONG
A
FTER
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IDNIGHT
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HE
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ARTIAN
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HRONICLES
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HE
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TORIES
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HE
G
OLDEN
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PPLES OF THE
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TORIES OF
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AY
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Copyright notices for individual stories appear in
Acknowledgements
, which constitute an extension of this copyright page.
The Golden Apples of the
Sun
published by Bantam 1964.
R Is for Rocket
published by Bantam 1965.
A trade paperback edition of this book was
published under the title
The Golden Apples of the Sun
in 1997 by Avon
Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
A SOUND OF THUNDER AND OTHER
STORIES
. Copyright © 1990 by Ray Bradbury. All rights reserved under International and
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First Avon Books published in 1997.
Reprinted
in Perennial 2001.
First Harper Perennial edition published 2005.
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication
Data is available upon request.
ISBN-10: 0-06-078569-1 (movie tie-in)
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-078569-7 (movie
tie-in)
Epub Edition © JUNE 2013 ISBN:
9780062242075
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