R Is for Rocket

R Is for Rocket

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Cover artist	Joseph Mugnaini
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Doubleday & Company
Publication date	1962
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	233 pp
Followed by	S Is for Space

R Is for Rocket (1962) is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury, compiled for Young Adult library sections. It contains fifteen stories from earlier Bradbury collections, and two previously uncollected stories.

Contents

1. "R Is for Rocket" (first published as "King of the Gray Spaces")
2. "The End of the Beginning"
3. "The Fog Horn"
4. "The Rocket"
5. "The Rocket Man"
6. "The Golden Apples of the Sun"
7. "A Sound of Thunder"
8. "The Long Rain"
9. "The Exiles"
10. "Here There Be Tygers"
11. "The Strawberry Window"
12. "The Dragon"
13. "The Gift"
14. "Frost and Fire"
15. "Uncle Einar"
16. "The Time Machine"
17. "The Sound of Summer Running"

References

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

Further reading

• Eller, Jonathan R.; F. Touponce, William (2004). Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction. Kent State University Press. pp. 375–379. ISBN 978-0-87338-779-8. OCLC 1022657627.

External links

• R Is for Rocket title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• R Is for Rocket publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database