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    Asleep in Armageddon
    Asleep in Armageddon
    Asleep in Armageddon
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    Asleep in Armageddon

    By Ray Bradbury

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    Avoid Planetoid 787. Lush and sunny, with fine air and no dangerous beasts, it'll tempt you to curve in for some nice solid-ground sleep. DON'T!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlien Ebooks
    Release dateMay 12, 2021
    ISBN9781667620671
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    Ray Bradbury

    In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

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      Asleep in Armageddon - Ray Bradbury

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      COPYRIGHT NOTE

      ASLEEP IN ARMAGEDDON

      COPYRIGHT NOTE

      This classic book has been reformatted for optimal reading in ebook format on multiple devices. Punctuation and spelling has been modernized where necessary.

      Copyright © 2021 by Alien Ebooks. All rights reserved.

      ASLEEP IN ARMAGEDDON

      RAY BRADBURY

      Originally published in

      Planet Stories Winter 1948.

      You don’t want death and you don’t expect death. Something goes wrong, your rocket tilts in space, a planetoid jumps up, blackness, movement, hands over the eyes, a violent pulling back of available power in the fore-jets, the crash....

      The darkness. In the darkness, the senseless pain. In the pain, the nightmare.

      He was not unconscious.

      Your name? asked hidden voices. Sale, he replied in whirling nausea. Leonard Sale. Occupation, cried the voices. Spaceman! he cried, alone in the night. Welcome, said the voices. Welcome, welcome. They faded.

      He stood up in the wreckage of his ship. It lay like a folded, tattered garment around him.

      The sun rose and it was morning.

      Sale pried himself out the small air-lock and stood breathing the atmosphere. Luck. Sheer luck. The air was breathable. An instant’s checking showed him that he had two month’s supply of food with him. Fine, fine! And this—he fingered at the wreckage. Miracle of miracles! The

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