The golden apples of the sun

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The book The Golden Apples of the Sun ( The Golden Apples of the Sun ) is a collection of 22 science fiction stories of the American writer Ray Bradbury . The original American version was published by Doubleday in 1953. The collection includes short stories published in various magazines and journals between 1945 and 1953. The German first edition was published by Marion von Schröder Verlag in 1970 under the title Geh 'nicht zu Fuß durch Stille Straßen . The Diogenes Verlag reprinted the book in 1981 and took over the original title in German translation.

The title is the last line of the poem The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats .

expenditure

It was reissued in 1990 by Bantam Books under the title Classic Stories I , using short stories from the short story collection R is for Rocket . However, 4 short stories from The Golden Apples of the Sun and one from R is for Rocket , which were still present in the respective original editions, were left out in this issue .

The third and fourth editions were published by Avon under the titles Golden Apples of the Sun (1997) and A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005).

The stories

  • The Nebelhorn ( The Fog Horn )
  • Don't walk down quiet streets ( The Pedestrian )
  • The April Witch ( The April Witch )
  • The wilderness ( The Wilderness )
  • The fruits at the bottom of the bowl ( The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl )
  • Invisible Boy ( Invisible Boy )
  • The Flying Machine ( The Flying Machine )
  • The killer ( The Murderer )
  • The Golden Dragon, the Silver Wind ( The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind )
  • I never see you ( I see you never )
  • Embroidery ( Embroidery )
  • The large black and white game ( The Big Black and White Game )
  • A thunder crash ( A Sound of Thunder )
  • Over the big wide world out ( The great Wide World Over There )
  • Power plant ( Power House )
  • En la noche ( En la noche )
  • Sun and shade ( Sun and Shadow )
  • The meadow ( The Meadow )
  • The garbage men ( The garbage collector )
  • The Great Fire ( The Great Fire )
  • Welcome and Farewell ( Hail and Farewell )
  • The Golden Apples of the Sun ( The Golden Apples of the Sun )

Reviews

“ Nightmare images, excursions into the imagination that are now tempting, now shocking. Bradbury at the height of his dismaying ability. "

- The New York Times

literature

  • Ray Bradbury: The Golden Apples of the Sun . Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1990. ISBN 3-257-20864-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Golden Apples of the Sun in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database .