The Dragon Who Ate His Tail is a collection of short stories, screenplay fragments and manuscript facsimiles by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was published...

previously published in the collection Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 and the chapbook The Dragon Who Ate His Tail. The origins and evolution...

defeated by his opponent Keith, to the relief of many concerned. When the party arrives in the past, Travis, the hunting guide, and his assistant warn...

they decide to consult psychiatrist David McClean, who suggests they leave the home, move to the country, and learn to be more self-sufficient. Peter...

Halloway, the janitor of the town library, who harbors his own secret fear of growing older because he feels he is too old to be Will's dad. The novel combines...

Space tells the story of an amateur astronomer and his fiancée who are stargazing in the desert when a large fiery object crashes to Earth. At the crash site...

one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to the other children as being like a "penny" or "fire in the stove"...

after the prop was lost the Pequod was followed by a barge with various whale parts (hump, back, fin, tail). Ninety percent of the shots of the white...

quelled the likelihood of total annihilation, Bradbury was a lone voice among his contemporaries in contemplating the potentialities of such horrors." The author...

Stories (2005) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2007) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007) Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99...

in his Green Town Trilogy. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine", which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet magazine. The title...

on the planet are thrilled with his ability and a violent fight breaks out over who will get to spend the most time with their visitor and enjoy the illusionary...

lizard-like creature; the creature also has leathery, bat-like wings, four legs, and a long, muscular prehensile tail. Some depictions show dragons with one or...

sea monster himself. The fog horn tricks the monster into thinking he has found another of his kind, one who acts as though the monster did not even exist...

about his profession Mead tells the car that he is a writer, which the car interprets as “no profession” since no one buys books or magazines in the television-dominated...

of his tail. Li burst through the ceiling and flew away to the Black Dragon River in northeast China, where he became the god of that river. On the anniversary...

Rain" "The Exiles" "Here There Be Tygers" "The Strawberry Window" "The Dragon" "The Gift" "Frost and Fire" "Uncle Einar" "The Time Machine" "The Sound...

discovered a handbill promoting meetings of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society. Excited to find others who shared his interest, he joined a Thursday-night...

a friend who drowned in a lake during childhood. "The Emissary" A sick boy who cannot go outside has only two connections to the world, his dog and a...

with the show, which resulted in just one of his stories ("I Sing the Body Electric") being used. It was later produced as a radio episode of the series...

work on his rocket but is easily persuaded to go with the rest of the colonists and come back when the weather is cooler. Five years later, the United...

that he chose the name "Toynbee Convector" for his machine, being inspired by "a historian named Toynbee": ... that fine historian who said any group...

till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. Bradbury prefaces his book with the last three lines of this poem...

and Bradbury Stories (2003). The story concerns two knights who have a mission to slay a dragon. They describe the dragon as huge, fire-breathing, and...

The 1962 script was written by Ray Bradbury, and became the basis for his 1969 short story of the same name, itself named after an 1855 Walt Whitman poem...

in turn took the title from a poem by Walt Whitman published in his collection Leaves of Grass. The collection includes these stories: "The Kilimanjaro...

The Machineries of Joy (1964) is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. "The Machineries of Joy" "The One Who Waits" "Tyrannosaurus...

a different title in the magazine Planet Stories, and then in the collection The Illustrated Man. The story tells of four men who have crashed on Venus...

healthier mindset. When his grave is disturbed, a man who died four centuries earlier rises from his tomb to infiltrate the utopia and launch a vendetta...

Aztec) Dragon – serpentine, reptilian traits (worldwide) Dungavenhooter – a crocodile creature with no mouth and huge nostrils using its tail to pound...