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  <title><![CDATA[Classic Stories 1: The Golden Apples of the Sun &amp; R Is for Rocket (Grand Master)]]></title>
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  <default_description>A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future.&#160;&#160;Selected from his best-selling collections &lt;i&gt;The Golden Apples Of The Sun&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;R Is For Rocket&lt;/i&gt;, here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age--the inimitable Ray Bradbury.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's kind of strange reading a collection of sci-fi short stories from generations ago.  In some respects, you have to be able to picture the way the world was when the stories were written.  Not doing so makes the stories seem silly when you compare to how life on earth really turned out.  Such is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10789354">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bradbury Classic Stories 1: From the Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket (Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury (1990)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Along with Ender's Game, this collection of short stories is what got me hooked on science fiction. While these stories aren't strictly science fiction, enough stories dealt with it that it opened new worlds to me. Whether it was &quot;The Rocket Man,&quot; about a man who is never satisfied (when h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25516286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book back in 1988 and decided to re-read it 2 years ago as part of a summer-long book, script and libretto read.  It was my way of touching ground and getting back to those books and authors I loved as a child. That summer I had given up watching TV and actually didn't own a TV for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4780535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved &quot;A Sound of Thunder&quot; short story in high school so much that I finally bought a copy of his works that has a copy of the story in it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book that first introduced me to the wonderful world of sci-fi. A group of Bradbury's best short stories including the last dinosaur that sings to a lighthouse which it also thinks is a dinosaur, also a planet where Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carrol, Shakespeare and other great writers live, and ano...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29540425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[great collection of sci-fi shorts. contains many classics and some that never got much attention. especially enjoy &quot;the murderer&quot;. it's about today. everyone has phones attached to their heads and is talking to everyone all the time. if they're not talking, they're listening to music. one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36524357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A Sound of Thunder&quot; is the best, most memorable of Bradbury's short stories. I remember hearing an audio version in elementary school and it haunted me. I finally figured out which story it was after college when I picked up this volume. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[That the short story genre is truly the most savory. Like a fritura, you get a quick glimpse into a slice of goodness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the stories in this collection were really uninteresting, but then there was the occasional gem.]]></body>
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