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R Is for Rocket

Name: R Is for Rocket
Author: Ray Bradbury

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.

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

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

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

“It will only take a minute,” said Uncle Einar’s sweet wife.
“I refuse,” he said. “And that takes but a second.”

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

Uncle Einar (1947)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

““War!”
The thought stood in Sim’s brain. It shocked and beat at him. These men were running to fight, to kill, over there in those small black cliffs where other people lived.
But why? Wasn’t life short enough without fighting and killing?”

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

Frost and Fire (1946)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

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

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

Introduction
R Is for Rocket (1962)

“Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man’s attitude when he has power.”

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

Frost and Fire (1946)
R Is for Rocket (1962)

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

Ray Bradbury book R Is for Rocket

“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)