“The Fire Balloons”
1951-02-00
short story
By Ray Bradbury

Alternate Titles:
“In This Sign”

The Martian Chronicles

Synopsis

History

First publication: The Illustrated Man, Doubleday, February 1951

Review

Videos

We have the story in these editions:

The Illustrated Man, hardcover, William Morrow, 2001-00-00

The Stories of Ray Bradbury, hardcover, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002-09-00

The Martian Chronicles, hardcover, William Morrow, 2001-00-00

The Martian Chronicles: The Complete Edition, hardcover, Subterranean Press, 2022-08-00

The Great SF Stories 13 (1951), edited by Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, paperback, DAW Books, 1985-07-00


All of the stories in the The Martian Chronicles series:
The Million Year Picnic
And the Moon Be Still as Bright
Mars Is Heaven!
The Earth Men
The Long Years
The Off Season
The Summer Night
The Silent Towns
The Martian
Interim
Night Meeting
The Green Morning
The Locusts
The Luggage Store
The Musicians
The Old Ones
The Settlers
The Shore
The Taxpayer
Ylla
Usher II
Rocket Summer
The Naming of Names
The Watchers
Way in the Middle of the Air
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Fire Balloons
The Wilderness