Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury fue un autor estadounidense influyente, nacido en Waukegan, Illinois, en 1920. Es mejor conocido por sus obras en los géneros de fantasía, ciencia ficción, horror y misterio, y es ampliamente considerado como uno de las figuras más importantes en la literatura del siglo XX. La afición de Bradbury por la lectura comenzó a una edad temprana, con autores como Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells y Arthur C. Clarke entre sus primeras influencias. Después de graduarse de la escuela secundaria en Los Ángeles, se convirtió en un "estudiante de la vida", vendiendo periódicos y pasando sus noches en la biblioteca pública. Fue durante este tiempo que comenzó a escribir historias cortas, publicando su primera colección, Dark Carnival, en 1947.

La escritura de Bradbury se caracterizó por su mezcla única de fantasía y ciencia ficción, lo que ayudó a definir y avanzar el género en su conjunto. Su reputación como escritor de coraje y visión se estableció con la publicación de The Martian Chronicles en 1950, y continuó publicando numerosas otras obras, incluyendo Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man y Something Wicked This Way Comes. Muchos consideran que Fahrenheit 451, una condena feroz de la censura, es su obra maestra. Además de sus muchas obras escritas, Bradbury también fue un prolífico escritor de guiones y teleplays, adaptando muchas de sus historias para la televisión y el cine.

A lo largo de su carrera, Ray Bradbury recibió numerosos premios y reconocimientos por sus contribuciones a la literatura. En 2000, recibió la Medalla Nacional del Libro de la Fundación Nacional del Libro por Contribución Sobresaliente a las Letras Estadounidenses. También fue galardonado con la Medalla Nacional de las Artes de 2004 y la Citación Especial Pulitzer de 2007. Bradbury falleció en junio de 2012, dejando un legado que continúa inspirando a generaciones de lectores, escritores y pensadores creativos. Su trabajo sigue siendo ampliamente leído y estudiado, y su influencia en el género de ciencia ficción aún se siente hoy.

Además de su escritura, Ray Bradbury también era conocido por su trabajo en otros campos creativos. Fue nominado a un Premio de la Academia por su película animada Icarus Montgolfier Wright y ganó un Premio Emmy por su teleplay de The Halloween Tree. También adaptó sesenta y cinco de sus historias para la televisión en The Ray Bradbury Theater. La visión creativa de Bradbury se extendió más allá de la literatura y el cine, ya que trabajó como consultor creativo en el Pabellón de los Estados Unidos en la Feria Mundial de Nueva York de 1964 y contribuyó a la concepción de la atracción Orbitron en Euro-Disney, Francia.

Bradbury estuvo casado con Maggie Bradbury desde 1947 hasta su fallecimiento en 2003, y juntos criaron a cuatro hijas y tuvieron ocho nietos. Era conocido por su optimismo y entusiasmo por la vida, y permaneció un escritor y pensador creativo activo hasta su muerte en 2012 a la edad de 91 años. En sus propias palabras, "Tengo buenos planes para los próximos diez o veinte años, y espero que vengan con ustedes". El trabajo de Bradbury continúa inspirando y fascinando a las audiencias, y su legado como escritor y visionario creativo vivirá por generaciones.
Crumley Mysteries Books
# Título Año
1 Death is a Lonely Business 1985
2 A Graveyard for Lunatics 1990
3 Let's All Kill Constance 2003
Green Town Books
# Título Año
1 Dandelion Wine 1957
2 Something Wicked This Way Comes 1962
3 Farewell Summer 2006
4 Summer Morning, Summer Night 2008
Novelas independientes
# Título Año
1 Fahrenheit 451 1953
2 The Halloween Tree 1972
3 Green Shadows, White Whale 1992
4 Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines 1998
5 From the Dust Returned 2001
Colecciones de cuentos cortos
# Título Año
1 Dark Carnival 1947
2 The Martian Chronicles 1950
3 The Illustrated Man 1951
4 A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories 1952
5 The Golden Apples of the Sun 1953
6 The October Country 1955
7 The Day It Rained Forever 1959
8 A Medicine for Melancholy 1959
9 The Small Assassin 1962
10 R Is for Rocket 1962
11 The Machineries of Joy 1964
12 The Vintage Bradbury 1965
13 The Autumn People 1965
14 Twice 22 1966
15 Tomorrow Midnight 1966
16 S is for Space 1966
17 Fever Dream And Other Fantasies 1968
18 I Sing the Body Electric 1969
19 Ray Bradbury 1975
20 Long After Midnight 1976
21 Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories 1979
22 The Stories of Ray Bradbury 1980
23 The Last Circus and the Electrocution 1980
24 Dinosaur Tales 1984
25 A Memory of Murder 1984
26 The Toynbee Convector 1988
27 Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed 1990
28 Classic Stories 2 1990
29 The Ray Bradbury Chronicles 1 1992
30 The Ray Bradbury Chronicles 1 (With: Al Williamson, Kent Williams, John Van Fleet, Ralp Reese, Ray Zone, Chuck Roblin, Vicente Segrelles) 1992
31 Ray Bradbury Chronicles, Vol 4 1993
32 Quicker Than the Eye 1996
33 Driving Blind 1997
34 One More for the Road 2002
35 Stories Volume 2 2003
36 Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales 2003
37 The Cat's Pajamas 2004
38 Now and Forever 2007
39 We'll Always Have Paris 2009
40 A Pleasure to Burn 2010
41 The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 2011
42 The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 2014
43 The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 2017
44 Killer, Come Back To Me 2020
45 Venus Remembered 2020
46 Across the Sullen Void 2023
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
# Título Año
1 The Poems 1945
2 Skeletons 1945
3 The Homecoming 1946
4 The Crowd 1947
5 Zero Hour 1947
6 The Black Ferris 1948
7 The Blue Bottle / Death-Wish 1950
8 There Will Come Soft Rains 1950
9 The Veldt 1950
10 A Sound of Thunder 1951
11 The Fog Horn 1951
12 The Playground 1953
13 All Summer in a Day 1954
14 The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit 1972
15 The Mummies of Guanajuato 1978
16 One Timeless Spring 1980
17 The Love Affair 1982
18 Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me 1987
19 Fever Dream 1987
20 The Thing at the Top of the Stairs 1988
21 A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers 2001
22 The Dragon Who Ate His Tail 2007
23 Marionettes, Inc. 2009
24 Defense Mech 2021
Libros de no ficción
# Título Año
1 Why Man Explores 1977
2 Why Man Explores (With: Norman Cousins, Jacques-Yves Cousteau) 1977
3 The Art of Playboy 1985
4 Zen in the Art of Writing 1987
5 Folon's Folons 1990
6 Yestermorrow 1991
7 Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship 1998
8 Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 2001
9 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
10 Bradbury Speaks 2005
11 Match to Flame 2007
12 Listen to the Echoes 2010
13 Listen to the Echoes (With: Sam Weller) 2010
Poetry Books
# Título Año
1 When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed 1973
2 Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns 1977
3 This Attic Where the Meadow Greens 1979
4 The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope 1981
5 The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury 1982
Screenplays/Plays
# Título Año
1 Kaleidoscope 1940
2 The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics 1963
3 Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow 1975
4 Nemo! 2012
Selected Shorts Books
# Título Año
1 For Better and for Worse (By: Symphony Space) 1993
2 Even More Laughs (By: Jonathan Lethem, T.C. Boyle, Philip Roth, Stephen Colbert, Miranda July, Christine Baranski, Alec Baldwin, Robert Sean Leonard, Symphony Space, Jerry Zaks, Julia Slavin, Harry Mathews, Thomas Meehan, Marian Seldes, Parker Posey) 1998
3 Timeless Classics (By: Shirley Jackson, James Thurber, Raymond Carver, John Shea, Jack London, Edith Wharton, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Connell, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Charles Keating, Symphony Space, Marian Seldes, Isaiah Sheffer, Steven Gilborn) 2006
4 Falling in Love (By: E. Nesbit, Padgett Powell, Maile Meloy, Rick Bass, Edna O'Brien, Fionnula Flanagan, Hope Davis, Laurie Colwin, Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Jane Curtin, William Hurt, Symphony Space) 2007
5 Food Fictions (By: Symphony Space) 2007
6 Travel Tales (By: Symphony Space) 2007
7 Edith Wharton (By: Symphony Space) 2007
8 Pets! (By: Symphony Space) 2007
9 Tales of Betrayal (By: John Cheever, Tessa Hadley, John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Symphony Space, Galina Vromen) 2007
10 Family Matters (By: Symphony Space) 2007
11 Are We There Yet? (By: Symphony Space) 2008
12 A Touch of Magic (With: T.C. Boyle, Maria Tucci, James Naughton, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Donald Barthelme, Daniel Gerroll, Symphony Space, Andrew Lam, Jerry Zaks) 2009
13 The William Hurt Collection (By: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Aleksandar Hemon, William Hurt, Ron Carlson, Symphony Space) 2009
14 Whodunit? (By: Ed McBain, Dashiell Hammett, Shirley Jackson, John Shea, Louise Erdrich, Nadine Gordimer, René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Sean Leonard, C.S. Montanye, Symphony Space, Isaiah Sheffer, Hattie Winston) 2009
15 American Classics (By: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Donald Barthelme, John Sayles, Amy Tan, Symphony Space) 2010
16 New American Stories (By: Sherman Alexie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aleksandar Hemon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Symphony Space) 2011
17 Poe! (By: Symphony Space) 2012
The Last Interview Books
# Título Año
1 Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida) 2005
2 Learning to Live Finally 2005
3 Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations 2009
4 Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009
5 Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview 2011
6 Kurt Vonnegut (By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) 2011
7 Jorge Luis Borges 2012
8 Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012
9 Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt) 2013
10 Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2013
11 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace) 2014
12 James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations 2014
13 James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe) 2014
14 Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview 2014
15 Ray Bradbury (With: Sam Weller) 2014
16 Gabriel García Márquez 2015
17 Lou Reed 2015
18 Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015
19 Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed) 2015
20 Ernest Hemingway 2015
21 Nora Ephron: The Last Interview 2015
22 Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015
23 Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron) 2015
24 Philip K. Dick 2015
25 Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick) 2015
26 J. D. Salinger 2016
27 Oliver Sacks 2016
28 J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger) 2016
29 Jane Jacobs 2016
30 Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks) 2016
31 David Bowie 2016
32 Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs) 2016
33 Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2017
34 David Bowie (By: David Bowie) 2016
35 Christopher Hitchens 2017
36 Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017
37 Hunter S. Thompson 2018
38 Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017
39 Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018
40 Kathy Acker: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2018
41 Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2018
42 Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker) 2018
43 Julia Child (By: Julia Child) 2018
44 Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2019
45 Graham Greene: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2019
46 Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019
47 Prince (By: Prince ) 2019
48 Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2020
49 Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2020
50 Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday) 2019
51 Shirley Chisholm: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
52 Anthony Bourdain (By: Melville House, Helen Rosner) 2019
53 Fred Rogers: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
54 Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene) 2019
55 Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2021
56 Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison) 2020
57 John Lewis: The Last Interview and Other Conversations 2021
58 Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo) 2020
59 Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations 2022
60 Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House, Sady Doyle) 2020
61 Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2022
62 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House) 2020
63 Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021
64 bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2023
65 The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers) 2021
66 Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations 2023
67 Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers) 2021
68 Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash) 2021
69 John Lewis (By: Melville House) 2021
70 Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House) 2022
71 Diego Maradona ( By: Melville House) 2022
72 Kurt Cobain ( By: Melville House) 2022
73 Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks) 2023
74 Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House) 2023
Graphic Novels (with Tim Hamilton, with Ron Wimberly)
# Título Año
1 Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation 2009
2 Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation 2011
3 Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation 2011
Graphic Novels (with Mike Mignola, with Tim Hamilton, with Ron Wimberly)
# Título Año
1 The Best of Ray Bradbury, The Graphic Novel 2003
2 Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (With: Tim Hamilton) 2009
3 Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (With: Howard Zimmerman, Dennis Calero) 2011
4 Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation (By: Dennis Calero) 2011
5 Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation (With: Ron Wimberly) 2011
Weird Tales Books
# Título Año
1 Weird Tales 1 ( By: Lin Carter) 1981
2 Weird Tales 2 (By: Robert Bloch, Tanith Lee, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard) 1981
3 Weird Tales 3 (By: Robert Bloch, Tanith Lee, Robert E. Howard, Evangeline Walton) 1981
4 Weird Tales 4 (With: Robert E. Howard) 1983
The Dark Descent Books
# Título Año
1 Volume I: The Color of Evil (With: Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, David G. Hartwell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, E. Nesbit, Charles L. Grant, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, M.R. James, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Russell Kirk, John Collier, Robert Aickman, Lucy Clifford, Michael Shea) 1987
2 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield (By: Stephen King, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, David G. Hartwell, Tanith Lee, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Joanna Russ, Richard Matheson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D.H. Lawrence, Dennis Etchison, Thomas M. Disch, Clive Barker, Robert Aickman, Robert Hichens, Edgar Allen Poe) 1990
3 Volume III: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness (By: Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David G. Hartwell, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton, Thomas M. Disch, Robert Aickman) 1991
Ray Bradbury Anthologies
# Título Año
1 Invasion From Mars:Interplanetary Stories 1949
2 Star Science Fiction Stories 3 1955
3 The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories 1956
4 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV 1957
5 Stories for the Dead of Night 1957
6 The Ghoul Keepers 1961
7 The Bedside Playboy 1963
8 The Seventh Galaxy Reader 1964
9 Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers 1965
10 The Microcosmic God 1965
11 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me 1967
12 Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures 1967
13 Time Untamed 1967
14 21 Great Stories 1969
15 Nova 1 1970
16 Young Demons 1972
17 Space Suits & Gumshoes 1972
18 The Devil's Generation 1973
19 Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 1973
20 Gooseflesh 1974
21 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974
22 Beyond Midnight 1976
23 Extraterrestrial Intelligence 1976
24 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series 1976
25 The Late Great Future 1976
26 The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories 1977
27 Weird Legacies 1977
28 Rod Serling's Other Worlds 1978
29 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction 1980
30 They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures 1979
31 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980
32 Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror 1980
33 Ghosts That Haunt You 1980
34 Weekend Book of Science Fiction 1981
35 Scaremongers 1981
36 Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 1983
37 13 Horrors of Halloween 1983
38 The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories 1984
39 Fourth Planet from the Sun 1984
40 Crime SuspenStories 1986
41 Cutting Edge 1986
42 The Dark Descent 1987
43 Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories! 1987
44 Mysterious Sea Stories 1987
45 Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987
46 The Monster Book of Monsters 1988
47 Ray Bradbury Chronicles: Alien Terror 1992
48 Science Fiction Stories 1988
49 Weird Science 1989
50 Tales of the Occult 1989
51 Great Baseball Stories 1990
52 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990
53 Volume III: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991
54 The Horror Hall of Fame 1991
55 Mystery Stories 1996
56 Christmas Stars 1992
57 The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces 1992
58 Monsters in Our Midst 1993
59 The Ultimate Witch 1993
60 Sea-Cursed 1994
61 California Sorcery 1999
62 Space Movies 1995
63 Night Screams 1996
64 Dark Terrors 3 1997
65 Time Machines 1997
66 The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings 1998
67 A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic 1998
68 Eleventh Annual Collection 1998
69 The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology 1999
70 October Dreams 2000
71 The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature 2002
72 Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters 2002
73 Writing Los Angeles 2002
74 Murder On The Railways 2003
75 Dark Delicacies 2005
76 A Tangled Web 2005
77 Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V 2006
78 Masques V 2006
79 Selected Shorts 2008
80 The Best of Cemetery Dance II 2008
81 Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead 2009
82 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010
83 Wally Wood’s EC Stories: Artist's Edition 2011
84 Like Water for Quarks 2011
85 Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury 2012
86 A Carnivàle of Horror 2012
87 Psychos 2012
88 Other Worlds 2013
89 The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013
90 Fantastic Stories Presents 2014
91 Parallàxis: A twist in the mind 2014
92 Field of Fantasies 2014
93 October Dreams II 2015
94 Science Fiction Gems, Volume Ten, Robert Sheckley and Others 2015
95 Darker Terrors 7 2016
96 The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® 2016
97 Grave Predictions 2016
98 Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore 2017
99 Lost Mars 2018
100 The Science Fiction Collection #1 2018
101 Flight or Fright 2018
102 Science Fiction Gems, Volume 15, Milton Lessor and Others 2018
103 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories 2019
104 The Science Fiction Collection 2019
105 One Hundred 2020
106 Planet Stories Super Pack #2 2020
107 The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020