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The Rocket Man

Ray Bradbury

First published February 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story


Also published in Maclean's, March 1 1951.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
February 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection |8
February 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
April 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
April 1952 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 84
June 1952 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 84
1953 The Illustrated Man Doubleday / SFBC Collection 93
July 1953 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
October 1954 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
1955 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 84
April 1958 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
1960 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 84
April 1961 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
October 1962 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 58
October 1962 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
November 1962 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 58
December 1962 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 58
1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
May 1963 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 58
September 1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
September 1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
September 1964 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 58
1965 The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
March 1965 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
May 1965 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
August 1965 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
December 1965 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
September 1966 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
January 1967 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
June 1967 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
1968 Cover R Is for Rocket Hart-Davis Collection
October 1968 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
January 1969 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
March 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
March 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
September 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday / SFBC Collection 93
December 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 65
August 1970 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
1972 Cover R Is for Rocket Pan Books Collection 39
1972 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 65
January 1972 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
July 1972 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 65
September 1972 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
August 1973 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
1974 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Collection 65
1974 R Is for Rocket Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Collection 58
March 1974 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
February 1975 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
February 1976 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
September 1976 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
November 1976 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 63
March 1978 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
April 1978 The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 63
August 1979 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 63
June 1980 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
October 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 150
December 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 150
1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Granada Collection 150
1981 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
February 1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 150
June 1981 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
1982 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 63
August 1982 The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 63
August 1982 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 63
January 1983 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
January 1983 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Granada Collection
1984 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
1985 R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 39
1985 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Granada Collection
1987 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Grafton Collection 255
January 1988 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 63
January 1988 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 39
May 1990 Cover Classic Stories 1: Selections from The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 190
October 1990 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 150
1995 Cover Classic Stories 1: Selections from The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 193
May 1996 Cover The Illustrated Man Gauntlet Press Collection
1997 Cover The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Avon Books Collection 191
June 1997 Cover The Illustrated Man Avon Books Collection 97
2001 Cover The Illustrated Man William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 87
November 2001 Cover The Illustrated Man Book-of-the-Month Club Collection 97
July 2005 Cover A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories Harper Perennial Collection 191
October 2005 R Is for Rocket PS Publishing Collection
October 2005 R Is for Rocket PS Publishing Collection
October 2005 R Is for Rocket PS Publishing Collection
June 2008 The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Paw Prints Collection
August 2008 Cover The Illustrated Man Paw Prints Collection
December 2008 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 HarperVoyager Collection
2010 Cover The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Tantor Media Collection |191
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 185
January 2011 Cover The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man / The Golden Apples of the Sun Barnes & Noble Books Omnibus 350
October 2011 Cover The Illustrated Man Harper Perennial Modern Classics Collection 97
2012 Cover The Illustrated Man The Easton Press Collection 93
March 2012 Cover The Illustrated Man Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Collection
June 2012 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
December 2013 Cover R Is for Rocket Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |39
August 2017 Cover The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection |191
January 2018 Cover The Illustrated Man Amazon Digital Services Collection |8
August 2018 Cover The Illustrated Man Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing Collection |8
2019 Cover R Is for Rocket / S Is for Space PS Publishing Omnibus 57