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May 9, 2014 by Dramatic Listening Leave a Comment

DL025: The Rocket ~ Sick With Desire

Lovers think rocket is a shooting star.

Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Rocket’, Scenes 1 and 2 [00:00 ~ 05:22] Sci-fi fan or not... Whether you are a science fiction fan or not, I think you will like this story. It's a story that we can all relate to about yearning for our heart's desire . It’s called, “The Rocket”. It’s a short story of Ray Bradbury’s that was first published in 1950 under a different title, "Outcast of the Stars". The following year (1951), it was included in one of Bradbury’s short story collections called ‘The Illustrated Man” with a new title, The Rocket. It was then adapted into a radio drama by Ernest Kinoy in 1952 as a part of the NBC Presents: Short Story series. That’s the one we will be listening to. Ray Bradbury: Ray Bradbury, an American writer who lived from 1920-2012, is well known for his science fiction stories like “Fahrenheit 451”. But he also wrote some fantasy, horror, and mystery stories. He’d been a reader and a writer ever since he was a boy. He actually started writing at the young age of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Podcast, Sci-Fi, Upper Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate Sci-Fi Tagged With: 1st-in-series, desire, dream, junkyard, rocket

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