num_pages: 184
description: He can make you see things that have never been seen by human eyes... feel things that no flesh-and-blood creature has ever felt. He can create visions so compelling that they literally seem to dance before your eyes. He can push you back to the beginnings of time and then suddenly, without warning, thrust you forward to the outmost limits of the future. He can make you so much a part of his strange worlds that you literally scream to get out... Seventeen breathtaking stories — including the space-age classic, Frost and Fire.Contents:- R Is for Rocket (1943)- The End of the Beginning (1956)- The Fog Horn (1951)- The Rocket (1950)- The Rocket Man (1951)- The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)- A Sound of Thunder (1952)- The Long Rain (1950)- The Exiles (1949)- Here There Be Tygers (1951)- The Strawberry Window (1955)- The Dragon (1955)- The Gift (1952)- Frost and Fire (1946)- Uncle Einar (1947)- The Time Machine (1955)- The Sound of Summer Running (1956)
language: English
title: R is for Rocket
titlecomplete: R is for Rocket
genres: Fantasy, Horror, Short Story Collection, Collections, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Anthologies
ratings_count: 5539
awards: awardedAt: 1546329600000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Short Story for "R is for Rocket (as King of the Grey Spaces)"
publisher: Bantam