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Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes—for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called Invasion. The most marvelous Christmas display a little boy ever saw. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of thirty-one of Bradbury's most arresting tales—timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart.

Ray Bradbury is known worldwide as one of the century's great men of imagination. Here are thirty-one reasons why.

Amerikaning mashhur fantast yozuvchisi Rey Bredberining nomi va asarlari o‘zbek o‘quvchilariga ham yaxshi tanish. Endi adibning shoh asari “Marsga hujum”ni siz aziz fantastika ixlosmandlariga havola etmoqdamiz. Oltmish yoshida ilk marta uchoqqa chiqqan, uyida eski yozuv mashinkasidan boshqa bironta zamonaviy texnika uskunasi bo‘lmagan Rey Bredberi favqulodda quvvai zehni bilan olis-olis galaktikalarga xuddi fazogirlarday “sayohat” qiladi va mo‘‘jizaviy taassurotlarini jahon ahli bilan baham ko‘radi.

Muallifning fantastika vositasida bunday g‘aroyib “sayohat”lari zamirida ulkan majoziy ma’no yotadi — u Yerdagi hayot, xususan ona tabiatga munosabat allaqachon izdan chiqqanligini alam, o‘kinch va zaharxandalik bilan ifoda etadi. Hatto biz shaffof marsliklar istiqomat qiladi deb tasavvur etganimiz Mars sayyorasini ham mana shu odamlar allaqachon boshiga yetib bo‘lganini alohida uqtiradi. Bu esa Yerdagi har bir odamni chuqurroq o‘ylashga, hushyor bo‘lishga da’vat etadi.

“Jahon adabiyoti” jurnalidan

In eine kleine Stadt in den USA kommt eines Tages ein Zirkus, der von den beiden 14jährigen Jungen Jim Nightshade und Will Halloway natürlich freudig begrüßt wird. Bald aber merken sie, daß mit diesem Zirkus etwas nicht stimmt, daß auf merkwürdige Weise in das Leben der Karussellpassagiere eingegriffen wird. Die Besitzer des Karussells scheinen nur auf unglückliche Opfer zu warten, sich regelrecht von ihren Leiden zu ernähren. Als sie merken, daß Jim und Will sie durchschaut haben, beginnen sie mit einer unheimlichen Jagd auf die beiden Jungen.

Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe:

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(Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York 1962)

Copyright © 1962 by Ray Bradbury

Aus dem Amerikanischen von

Norbert Wölfl

Halloween 1954, Mitternacht, die Stunde der Geister und Verstorbenen. Über die Friedhofsmauer zwischen der Stadt der Toten und der Filmstadt Hollywood klettert eine Leiche – oder ist es eine Puppe? Ein junger Science-Fiction-Schreiber und Drehbuchautor beobachtet dies …

»In einer grandiosen Mischung aus Horrorstück, Detektivroman, Gesellschaftssatire und philosophischem Traktat über die fließenden Übergänge von Sein und Schein schildert Bradbury mit wohldosierter Steigerung von Spannung und Gruseleffekten seine haarsträubende Geschichte von der Stadt der (in der Fiktion) Lebenden, dem Studiogelände von Maximus Films, und der Stadt der Toten, dem direkt daneben liegenden Friedhof Green Glades, deren Grenzen im Laufe der rasanten Handlung immer weiter zusammenfließen. Das liest sich amüsant und spannend, gruselig und aufschlußreich zugleich, und das am besten in einer unheimlichen Nacht vom Anfang bis zum Ende in einem Zuge.«

Westfalen-Blatt, Bielefeld

»Eine Hollywood-Gruselgeschichte mit allen Merkmalen des reifen Bradbury-Sounds. Bradbury macht seine Leser süchtig nach mehr Bradbury.«

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Titel der 1990 bei Alfred A. Knopf, New York,

erschienenen Originalausgabe:

›A Graveyard for Lunatics‹

It is the first in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort until strange things begin happening around him. Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.

Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

Deutsche Übersetzungen von Thomas Schluck und Wolfgang Jeschke

From “Rocket Summer” to “The Million-Year Picnic,” Ray Bradbury’s stories of the colonization of Mars form an eerie mesh of past and future. Written in the 1940s, the chronicles drip with nostalgic atmosphere--shady porches with tinkling pitchers of lemonade, grandfather clocks, chintz-covered sofas. But longing for this comfortable past proves dangerous in every way to Bradbury’s characters--the golden-eyed Martians as well as the humans. Starting in the far-flung future of 1999, expedition after expedition leaves Earth to investigate Mars. The Martians guard their mysteries well, but they are decimated by the diseases that arrive with the rockets. Colonists appear, most with ideas no more lofty than starting a hot-dog stand, and with no respect for the culture they’ve displaced.

Bradbury’s quiet exploration of a future that looks so much like the past is sprinkled with lighter material. In “The Silent Towns,” the last man on Mars hears the phone ring and ends up on a comical blind date. But in most of these stories, Bradbury holds up a mirror to humanity that reflects a shameful treatment of “the other,” yielding, time after time, a harvest of loneliness and isolation. Yet the collection ends with hope for renewal, as a colonist family turns away from the demise of the Earth towards a new future on Mars. Bradbury is a master fantasist and The Martian Chronicles are an unforgettable work of art.

Here are eighteen visions of humankind's destiny. A mixture of magic, imagination and truth.

В книге предлагается рассказ Р.Брэдбери «И грянул гром».

Текст адаптирован (без упрощения текста оригинала) по методу Ильи Франка: текст разбит на небольшие отрывки, каждый и который повторяется дважды: сначала идет английский текст с «подсказками» — с вкрапленным в него дословным русским переводом и лексико-грамматическим комментарием (то есть адаптированный), а затем — тот же текст, но уже неадаптированный, без подсказок.

Начинающие осваивать английский язык могут при этом читать сначала отрывок текста с подсказками, а затем тот же отрывок — без подсказок. Вы как бы учитесь плавать: сначала плывете с доской, потом без доски. Совершенствующие свой английский могут поступать наоборот: читать текст без подсказок, по мере необходимости подглядывая в подсказки.

Запоминание слов и выражений происходит при этом за счет их повторяемости, без зубрежки.

Кроме того, читатель привыкает к логике английского языка, начинает его «чувствовать».

Этот метод избавляет вас от стресса первого этапа освоения языка — от механического поиска каждого слова в словаре и от бесплодного гадания, что же все-таки значит фраза, все слова из которой вы уже нашли.

Пособие способствует эффективному освоению языка, может служить дополнением к учебникам по грамматике или к основным занятиям. Предназначено для студентов, для изучающих английский язык самостоятельно, а также для всех интересующихся английской культурой.

Мультиязыковой проект Ильи Франка:

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show crept into town late one night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the fearful days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a full-grown man became a tiny dwarf. It was Jim and Will, two thirteen-year-old boys, who first stumbled into the grisly secrets of the Show—the sinister merry-go-round, the wax museum of living people, the strange mirror that stole souls. But it was not until they had actually become part of its evil seductions that they discovered the most awful secret of all...

World-renowned fantasist Ray Bradbury has on several occasions stepped outside the arenas of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. An unabashed romantic, his first novel in 1957 was basically a love letter to his childhood. (For those who want to undertake an even more evocative look at the dark side of youth, five years later the author would write the chilling classic s.)

Dandelion Wine takes us into the summer of 1928, and to all the wondrous and magical events in the life of a 12-year-old Midwestern boy named Douglas Spaulding. This tender, openly affectionate story of a young man’s voyage of discovery is certainly more mainstream than exotic. No walking dead or spaceships to Mars here. Yet those who wish to experience the unique magic of early Bradbury as a prose stylist should find Dandelion Wine most refreshing.