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R Is for Rocket

R Is for Rocket 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.


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“Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.”

Here There Be Tygers (1951)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

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“The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them.”

Introduction
R Is for Rocket (1962)

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“You remember winning, don’t you? A battle won, somewhere?”

“No,” said the old man, deep under. “I don’t remember anyone winning anywhere any time. War’s never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns.
The Time Machine (1955)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

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