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Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed

Ray Bradbury

First published August 1949
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

This story originally appeared as "The Naming of Names" in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949. That title was later used for a vignette in The Martian Chronicles which was an entirely different story.
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Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1949 Cover Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949 Standard Magazines, Inc. MAGAZINE 137
March 1951 Cover Los Cuentos Fantásticos, No. 31 Enigma (México) MAGAZINE 18
October 1953 Cover The Best from Startling Stories Henry Holt Anthology 113
December 1953 Cover Science and Sorcery Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. Anthology 144
1954 Cover Startling Stories Cassell & Company Anthology 113
March 1956 Cover Moment Without Time The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Anthology 113
1959 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Doubleday Collection 128
1959 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Hart-Davis Collection
March 1959 Cover Argosy, March 1959 The Amalgamated Press MAGAZINE 33
April 1960 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 94
May 1960 Cover The Day It Rained Forever The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Collection 115
1961 Cover Un remède à la mélancolie Denoël Collection
1963 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
September 1963 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 95
September 1963 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 95
September 1963 Cover La fine del principio Casa Editrice La Tribuna Collection 37
September 1963 Cover La fine del principio Casa Editrice La Tribuna Collection 37
1964 Cover De laatste Martiaan en andere verhalen Het Spectrum Collection 89
1964 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1965 Medicina contra la melancolia Vértice Collection 121
1966 Cover Great Science Fiction Stories, Number 3 Popular Library, Inc. MAGAZINE 21
1966 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
January 1966 Cover Twice Twenty-two Doubleday Omnibus 311
March 1966 Cover Twice Twenty-two Doubleday / SFBC Omnibus 311
August 1966 Cover S Is for Space Doubleday Collection 203
August 1966 Cover S Is for Space Doubleday Collection 203
1967 Cover Science Fiction Longmans Anthology 60
May 1967 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 95
July 1967 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 95
1968 Cover S Is for Space Hart-Davis Collection
1969 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1969 Cover Medizin für Melancholie Marion von Schröder Collection 112
December 1969 Cover Un remède à la mélancolie Denoël Collection 134
1970 Cover La fine del principio Casa Editrice La Tribuna Collection 37
1970 Cover Science Fiction Longman Anthology 60
November 1970 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
November 1970 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
January 1971 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 95
March 1971 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
November 1971 Cover Medizin für Melancholie Heyne Collection 76
1972 Cover S Is for Space Pan Books Collection 188
1972 Cover S Is for Space Pan Books Collection 188
1972 Cover Medizin für Melancholie Heyne Collection 76
March 1972 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
October 1972 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
November 1972 Cover The Other Dimension Scholastic Book Services Anthology 141
November 1972 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
February 1973 Cover The Other Dimension Scholastic Book Services Anthology 141
April 1973 Cover Gates to Tomorrow: An Introduction to Science Fiction Atheneum Anthology 66
1974 Cover Medizin für Melancholie Heyne Collection 76
1974 Cover De kronieken van Mars Het Spectrum Collection 131
1974 Cover Kaleidoszkóp Kozmosz Könyvek Collection 46
July 1974 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
November 1974 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
November 1974 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1975 Science Fiction Longman Anthology 60
January 1975 Cover Un remède à la mélancolie Denoël Collection 134
April 1976 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
April 1977 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
June 1977 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 94
1978 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1978 Cover E de espaço Hemus Collection
March 1978 S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
April 1978 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
May 1978 Cover Science and Sorcery Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp. Anthology 136
1979 Cover Science Fiction Longman Anthology 60
July 1979 Cover Un remède à la mélancolie Denoël Collection 134
September 1979 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
1980 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1980 Cover Medizin für Melancholie Heyne Collection 102
1980 Cover Maschinenmenschen Das Neue Berlin Anthology |04
October 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 469
December 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 469
1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Granada Collection 469
1981 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1981 Cover Die aufregendsten Science-Fiction Geschichten Tosa Anthology 19
1981 Cover Medizin für Melancholie Diogenes Collection |12
January 1981 Cover S Is for Space Bantam Books Collection 179
February 1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 469
September 1981 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 94
January 1983 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 Granada Collection
November 1984 Cover 34 Racconti Mondadori Collection 267
1985 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 Granada Collection
October 1987 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1988 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 106
1990 Cover Die goldenen Äpfel der Sonne Volk und Welt Collection 49
May 1990 Cover Classic Stories 2 Bantam Spectra Collection 316
October 1990 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 469
1991 Cover Театр Теней Химия Anthology 89
March 1991 Cover Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed Signal Hill Chapbook 13
November 1991 Cover The Day It Rained Forever Roc UK Collection 106
April 1992 Cover Un coup de tonnerre Gallimard Collection 30
1993 Cover Toiset taivaat Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö Collection 237
July 1993 Cover Un coup de tonnerre Gallimard Collection 30
1998 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories Avon Books Collection 284
October 1999 Cover Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors Avon Camelot / Avon Books Anthology 149
2001 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories Perennial / HarperCollins Collection 284
2001 Cover The Sci-Fi Factor Perfection Learning Anthology 46
November 2001 Cover Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century Ace Books Anthology 130
December 2001 Cover Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century Ace Books / SFBC Anthology 130
January 2002 Cover Il grande mondo laggiù. 34 Racconti Mondadori Collection 303
March 2004 Cover Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century Ace Books Anthology 130
November 2004 Cover Un coup de tonnerre Gallimard Collection 30
October 2005 S Is for Space PS Publishing Collection
October 2005 S Is for Space PS Publishing Collection
October 2005 S Is for Space PS Publishing Collection
November 2008 Cover The Day It Rained Forever PS Publishing Collection
November 2008 Cover The Day It Rained Forever PS Publishing Collection
November 2008 Cover The Day It Rained Forever / A Medicine for Melancholy PS Publishing Omnibus
December 2008 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 HarperVoyager Collection
October 2009 Cover The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition Subterranean Press & PS Publishing Collection 369
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 567
April 2011 Cover De laatste Martiaan en andere verhalen Het Spectrum Collection 89
June 2012 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
April 2013 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection |284
September 2017 Cover S is for Space: Meisterhafte Storys Knaur Collection 243
April 2018 Cover A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories Recorded Books Collection |284
2019 Cover R Is for Rocket / S Is for Space PS Publishing Omnibus 401
2020 Cover Marsbéli krónikák (teljes változat) Agave Könyvek Omnibus 440
October 2022 Cover Otras crónicas marcianas Libros del Zorro Rojo Collection 73