# Short Fiction — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Short Fiction by Ray Bradbury.

- [Don't Get Technatal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/don-t-get-technatal.md): Samuel Stern laments the loss of sensationalism and conflict in a utopian Technocracy, arguing that peace and equality have destroyed his ability to write exciting stories. His wife Bella suggests love stories or science
- [The Pendulum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/the-pendulum.md): John Layeville, inventor of a time machine, is imprisoned inside the glass head of a giant pendulum after his machine malfunctions and kills thirty scientists. Swung endlessly back and forth for what becomes centuries, h
- [The Fight of the Good Ship Clarissa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/the-fight-of-the-good-ship-clarissa.md): The crew of the space rocket Clarissa, nine days out from Venus, experiences a lull during which Anthony Quelch writes a book. The crew throws a wild party in the control room, tearing up magazines and editors. They then
- [The Piper](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/the-piper.md): An old man and a Martian boy observe the Piper, an exiled Venerian, playing his pipe on a burial hill. The old man explains that the Piper was once the epitome of Venerian culture, outlawed by Earthlings. He reveals that
- [Lazarus Come Forth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/lazarus-come-forth.md): Brandon, working on a Morgue Ship, discovers a perfectly preserved frozen body of a Scientist who holds the key to ending the war. He revives him, seeing him as a second son after losing his own son Richard. Logan, his c

> 26 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=short_fiction_46_se_1001kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [The Monster Maker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/the-monster-maker.md)
- [Morgue Ship](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/morgue-ship.md)
- [Defense Mech](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/defense-mech.md)
- [The Creatures That Time Forgot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/the-creatures-that-time-forgot.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/v.md)
- [The Fourth Night: Sim's Resolve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [The Test of the Sun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [Rocket Summer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/rocket-summer.md)
- [Zero Hour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/zero-hour.md)
- [Asleep in Armageddon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/asleep-in-armageddon.md)
- [Jonah of the Jove-Run](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/jonah-of-the-jove-run.md)
- [Pillar of Fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/pillar-of-fire.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/v.md)
- [I, Mars](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/i-mars.md)
- [A Little Journey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/a-little-journey.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_46_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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