It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.
— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (William Morrow Paperbacks; April 23, 2013) (via Cultural Offering)
Asleep in Armageddon, Ray Bradbury
Illustration of The Long Rain by Ray Bradbury. Art by Cristina Bencina.
Available as a print here.
August 22, 1920
“I’ll make a sound that’s so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns.”
The Fog Horn, Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, 1950
Joseph Mugnaini - The Halloween Tree, 1972
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 [ID in ALT]
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury, 1972
"It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason."
– Ray Bradbury
2 unusual editions of Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’.
Al Parker illustration for Ray Bradbury