R Is For Rocket [Paperback]

Ray Bradbury (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1976

Seventeen breathtaking stories by the master of the weird and the wonderful, including the spaceage classic, "Frost and Fire".

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Bantam Books; Bantam Science Fiction Edition edition (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553103679
• ISBN-13: 978-0553103670
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,963,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, great, fun, sci-fi, February 26, 2007

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C. J. Leach (Midwest, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: R Is For Rocket (Paperback)

I'll start with mentioning a couple forms of reading I sometimes do NOT like. I sometimes don't like short story collections that are written in a fashion requiring excessive reader "work" in constructing the environment. You figure out what's going on . . . and it's over and time to start the next story (I know this sounds lazy, but I do often read for RELAXATION). And, I sometimes do not enjoy science-fiction that is overly technical, or overwhelms me with bizarre foreign names, terms and political structures. This book is none of the above.

This is a wonderful collection of easy reading and imaginative sci-fi short stories. Fit for readers of any age, it is the kind of stuff that makes one hunger for more science fiction (or more Ray Bradbury, anyway).

I found myself looking forward to the world to be found in each successive story, and certainly was saddened to reach the end of the short book.

There is a sister work, "S is for Space", which is more of the same good stuff.

I promise you'll enjoy it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Defines "the basics" for Sci-Fi beginner's MUST read, August 5, 2006

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John Carter - See all my reviews

This review is from: R Is For Rocket (Paperback)

I remember reading this when I was a kid. Frost and Fire ignited my imagination dreaming of spaceships and what it would be like to travel the galaxy. Highly recommended read.