S Is for Space

S is for Space (1966) is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Ray Bradbury. It was compiled for the Young Adult sections of libraries.

Contents

 * "Chrysalis"
 * A science fiction story in which three men anxiously watch their fellow-scientist as he is encased in a mysterious green chrysalis. They eventually come to believe he is undergoing metamorphosis inside the chrysalis.


 * "Pillar of Fire"
 * A science fiction/horror short novel. Set in the year 2349, it depicts a Utopian society in which all corpses are incinerated for hygienic reasons. All horror literature has also been burned to produce a 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 to restore fear.


 * "Zero Hour"
 * A science fiction story, involving a world-wide befriending of children by sinister aliens.


 * "The Man"
 * A rocket ship lands on an isolated planet, expecting an astounded welcome. However, they find they have been preceded by a much more important visitor.


 * "Time in Thy Flight"
 * A science fiction story. A high-school teacher takes three children on a field-trip in a time machine.


 * "The Pedestrian"
 * A science fiction story about a society addicted to television.


 * "Hail and Farewell"
 * A fantasy story concerning a middle-aged man who never physically aged past his pre-adolescence.


 * "Invisible Boy"
 * A comical story about an old woman who convinces a boy she has turned him invisible.


 * "Come into My Cellar"
 * A science fiction story about mushrooms and alien invasions.


 * "The Million-Year Picnic"
 * A science fiction story in which a family travels to an unsullied Mars to escape a ravaged Earth. Previously adapted as the final chapter of The Martian Chronicles (1950).


 * "The Screaming Woman"
 * A mystery/suspense story, describing a young girl who tries to procure help in digging up a woman buried in an empty lot.


 * "The Smile"
 * A science fiction story describing a world devastated by nuclear war, whose inhabitants systematically destroy artifacts of the past. The story touches on one boy who is enchanted by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.


 * "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"
 * An atomic war on Earth drives a family to flee to a human colony Mars.


 * "The Trolley"
 * An idyllic story about the last trolley-ride in a small town.


 * "The Flying Machine"
 * A story set in ancient China, whose Emperor discovers a peasant has invented a flying-machine.


 * "Icarus Montgolfier Wright"
 * A story concerning the first man to fly a rocket ship.