The Golden Apples of the Sun

Ray Bradbury (1920—2012) is an outstanding author, a classic of world literature and one of the major voices of science fiction. For more than half a century, millions of people around the world have read his books with enthusiasm. But Bradbury is not just a science fiction writer: his prose is rightly classified as "high", non-genre literature. Novels, novellas, and short stories — sincere, vivid, piercing — secured for him a reputation not only as the creator of amazing plots, but also as a subtle philosopher, thinker, and psychologist.

Only the Sun knows what we strive to understand.

The little man standing at the very edge of the abyss — the hero of Bradbury's lyrical stories — dreams of dispelling the darkness of ignorance and surviving the long winter of superstition.

Go further. Look to the future. Step over fear. Stay young at heart. Dream. Be wise. Love. Draw a little Sun.

Everyone has their own dreams. One wants to make the greatest film in the world. Another desperately needs to get a trophy — to shoot a tyrannosaurus, even if it means paying for it with the fate of civilization. A third seeks to bite off a slice of the golden apple of the Sun and not get burned in the process. And it is so easy to give in to this call — to leave behind the bustle of everyday life and set off on a journey after your own dream.