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The Rocket

Ray Bradbury

First published February 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
February 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection |19
February 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
April 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
1952 Cover The Illustrated Man Hart-Davis Collection
April 1952 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 235
June 1952 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 235
1953 The Illustrated Man Doubleday / SFBC Collection 242
July 1953 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
October 1954 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
1955 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 235
April 1958 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
1960 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 235
April 1961 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
October 1962 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 46
October 1962 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
November 1962 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 46
December 1962 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 46
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 46
September 1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
September 1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
September 1964 Cover R Is for Rocket Doubleday Collection 46
1965 The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
March 1965 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
May 1965 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
August 1965 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
December 1965 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
September 1966 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
January 1967 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
June 1967 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
1968 Cover R Is for Rocket Hart-Davis Collection
October 1968 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
January 1969 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
March 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
March 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
September 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday / SFBC Collection 242
December 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 177
August 1970 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1972 Cover R Is for Rocket Pan Books Collection 29
1972 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 177
January 1972 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
July 1972 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
September 1972 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1973 Cover A Collection of Prose and Poetry on the Theme of Tomorrow: Science Fiction and the Future Scholastic Anthology 121
August 1973 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1974 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Collection 177
1974 R Is for Rocket Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Collection 46
March 1974 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
February 1975 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
February 1976 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
September 1976 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
November 1976 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
January 1977 Cover The Illustrated Man Panther Collection 109
June 1977 Cover The Illustrated Man Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Collection
March 1978 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
April 1978 The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
August 1979 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
1980 Cover Early September: An Anthology of Short Stories Nelson (Canada) Anthology 93
1980 The Illustrated Man Panther Collection 109
June 1980 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1981 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1981 The Illustrated Man Panther Collection 109
June 1981 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1982 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
August 1982 The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
August 1982 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
1983 The Illustrated Man Panther / Granada Collection 109
January 1983 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1984 R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
1984 Cover The Illustrated Man Panther / Granada Collection 109
1985 R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 29
1986 The Illustrated Man Grafton Collection 109
1988 The Illustrated Man Grafton Collection 109
January 1988 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 177
January 1988 Cover R Is for Rocket Bantam Books Collection 29
May 1990 Cover Classic Stories 1: Selections from The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 179
May 1990 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Spectra Collection
1995 Cover Classic Stories 1: Selections from The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket Bantam Spectra Collection 182
May 1996 Cover The Illustrated Man Gauntlet Press Collection
1997 Cover The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Avon Books Collection 180
June 1997 Cover The Illustrated Man Avon Books Collection 245
2001 Cover The Illustrated Man William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 245
November 2001 Cover The Illustrated Man Book-of-the-Month Club Collection 245
August 2002 Cover The Illustrated Man Voyager Classics / HarperCollins Collection 126
August 2003 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 16
September 2003 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales William Morrow / HarperCollins / SFBC Collection 16
October 2003 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales The Easton Press Collection 16
April 2005 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Perennial / HarperCollins Collection 16
July 2005 Cover A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories Harper Perennial Collection 180
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
2007 Cover Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales Perennial / HarperCollins Collection 16
June 2008 The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Paw Prints Collection
August 2008 Cover The Illustrated Man HarperVoyager Collection 153
August 2008 Cover The Illustrated Man Paw Prints Collection
December 2008 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2 HarperVoyager Collection
2010 Cover The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories Tantor Media Collection |180
January 2011 Cover The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man / The Golden Apples of the Sun Barnes & Noble Books Omnibus 481
October 2011 Cover The Illustrated Man Harper Perennial Modern Classics Collection 245
2012 Cover The Illustrated Man The Easton Press Collection 242
March 2012 Cover The Illustrated Man Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Collection
June 2012 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2 Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
December 2013 Cover R Is for Rocket Harper Voyager (UK) Collection |29
August 2017 Cover The Golden Apples of the Sun and Other Stories William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection |180
January 2018 Cover The Illustrated Man Amazon Digital Services Collection |19
August 2018 Cover The Illustrated Man Recorded Books and Blackstone Publishing Collection |19
2019 Cover R Is for Rocket / S Is for Space PS Publishing Omnibus 45