← Back

The End of the Beginning

Ray Bradbury

First published 1959
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Notes

First published as "Next Stop: The Stars" in the magazine Maclean's, Oct 27, 1956.

Publications (91)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1959 A Medicine for Melancholy Doubleday Collection 36
1959 The Day It Rained Forever Hart-Davis Collection
1959 Science Fiction Showcase Doubleday Anthology 111
July 1959 Amazing Science Fiction Stories, July 1959 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 50
September 1959 Science Fiction Showcase Doubleday Anthology 111
April 1960 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
April 1960 Science Fiction Showcase Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 111
May 1960 The Day It Rained Forever The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) Collection 32
October 1962 R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 30
November 1962 R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 30
December 1962 R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 30
1963 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
May 1963 R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 30
September 1963 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
September 1963 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
1964 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
September 1964 R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 30
March 1965 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
May 1965 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
1966 Science Fiction Showcase Whiting & Wheaton Anthology 111
1966 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
January 1966 Twice Twenty-two Doubleday Omnibus 235
March 1966 Twice Twenty-two Doubleday / SFBC Omnibus 235
September 1966 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
January 1967 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
May 1967 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
July 1967 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
1968 Science Fiction Showcase Mayflower Anthology 87
1968 R Is for Rocket Hart-Davis Collection
October 1968 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
1969 Science Fiction Showcase Curtis Books Anthology 75
1969 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
January 1969 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
December 1969 Science Fiction Greats, Winter 1969 Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc. MAGAZINE 20
August 1970 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
January 1971 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
1972 R Is for Rocket Pan Books Collection 27
January 1972 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
September 1972 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
August 1973 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
1974 R Is for Rocket Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Collection 30
March 1974 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
November 1974 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
February 1975 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
February 1976 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
September 1976 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
June 1977 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
1978 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
March 1978 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
1980 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
June 1980 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
October 1980 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 880
December 1980 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 880
1981 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Granada Collection 880
1981 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
1981 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
February 1981 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 880
June 1981 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
September 1981 A Medicine for Melancholy Bantam Books Collection 21
January 1983 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
January 1983 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 Granada Collection
1984 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
1985 R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 16
1985 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 Granada Collection
October 1987 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
1988 The Day It Rained Forever Penguin Books Collection 31
January 1988 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 16
May 1990 Classic Stories 1: Selections from The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 173
October 1990 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 880
November 1991 The Day It Rained Forever Roc UK Collection 31
1995 Classic Stories 1: Selections from The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 176
1997 The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Avon Books Collection 174
April 2000 Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science Harcourt Anthology 31
February 2002 Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science Harcourt Anthology 31
July 2005 A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories Harper Perennial Collection 174
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
November 2008 The Day It Rained Forever PS Publishing Collection
November 2008 The Day It Rained Forever PS Publishing Collection
November 2008 The Day It Rained Forever / A Medicine for Melancholy PS Publishing Omnibus
December 2008 Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 HarperVoyager Collection
2010 The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Tantor Media Collection |174
April 2010 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection
April 2010 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 1055
January 2011 The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man / The Golden Apples of the Sun Barnes & Noble Books Omnibus 691
June 2012 Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
December 2013 R Is for Rocket Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |16
August 2017 The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection |174
2019 R Is for Rocket / S Is for Space PS Publishing Omnibus 29