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What are your top 10 Bradbury SciFi Shortstories?


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Posts: 21 | Location: Berlin, Germany | Registered: 09 April 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Any list of top-ten will inevitably be subject to subsequent revision. Also, the caveat that Bradbury declined to describe his work as SciFi (except F451) has to be in place. For me the top ten SciFi-like stories include:

The Pedestrian
Skeleton
The Dwarf (not really SciFi, but I love it)
All Summer in a Day
The Long Rain
The Blue Bottle
The Veldt
The Kaleidoscope
The Playground
A Sound of Thunder

Alternates:

Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed
The Rocket Man
Zero Hour
The Fire Balloons
The Man
The Messiah
 
Posts: 1964 | Location: McKinney, Texas | Registered: 11 May 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Since Ray seldom distinguishes his "SciFi" stories from others, neither will I.

In no particular order:

The Jar
The Emissary
Jack-in-the-Box
Kaleidoscope
The Rocket Man
Zero Hour
All Summer in a Day
The Fog Horn
The Million-Year Picnic
There Will Come Soft Rains
 
Posts: 229 | Location: Van Nuys, CA USA | Registered: 23 September 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Ray may not want to distinguish between his stories that are SF and those that aren't, but I have no such qualms:

Frost and Fire
The Small Assassin (Bet no-one else has thought about this one. Yes, it qualifies as SF!)
A Sound of Thunder
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Long Rain
The Veldt
And the Rock Cried Out
Zero Hour
The Earth Men
The Witch Door
 
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As a note of interest to this topic, here are the stories included in *The SFWA Grand Masters Volume 2* edited by Frederik Pohl --
The City
The Million-Year Picnic
All Summer in a Day
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Affluence of Despair

I don't recognize the last title. Can somebody jog my memory?
 
Posts: 229 | Location: Van Nuys, CA USA | Registered: 23 September 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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In no particular order as I cherish all ten equally...here goes.

The Fog Horn
The Rocket Man
Kaleidoscope
Rocket Summer
Ylla
The Million Year Picnic
The Rocket
No Particular Night or Morning
The Fire Balloons
The Long Rain
 
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