Penn Badgley, Paul Giamatti, LeVar Burton and Extra to Narrate New Ray Bradbury Audiobooks (Unique)

Ray Bradbury’s work is coming to life in a brand new manner.

This 12 months, writer Simon & Schuster will launch a collection of recent audiobooks of the acclaimed writer’s fiction, with an array of celebrities set to relate, PEOPLE can solely reveal.

Actor and podcaster Penn Badgley will narrate a brand new version of Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, out on Might 6. Bradbury’s seminal work is ready in a dystopian society the place books are unlawful and ordered to be destroyed by firefighters. 

The You actor’s personal debut e book, Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age, is ready to publish in October 2025. Badgley co-wrote the essay assortment together with his Podcrushed cohosts Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari.

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Actor, director, producer and podcaster LeVar Burton will narrate the brand new audiobook for The Martian Chronicles, set to be revealed on July 1. The 1950 novel charts the fictional journey of a gaggle of people who flee Earth for Mars, and celebrates its seventy fifth anniversary in 2025. 

Burton, whose work consists of exhibits like Roots, Star Trek: The Subsequent Era and Studying Rainbow, is the recipient of seven NAACP Awards, in addition to a Peabody Award, a Grammy Award and 15 Emmy Awards.

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Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti will narrate a brand new version of the writer’s 1962 darkish fantasy novel One thing Depraved This Manner Comes, out on Sept. 30. The e book, a part of Bradbury’s Inexperienced City trilogy, follows two boys who’re lured right into a mysterious touring circus that arrives of their hometown.

Audiobook narrators Marin Eire, Ari Fliakos and Prentice Onayemi can even lend their voices to the brand new audio version of The Illustrated Man, on sale June 3. Initially revealed in 1951, the interconnected brief story assortment revolves round themes like reality, humanity and know-how. 

Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Sick. on Aug. 22, 1920. Over the course of his prolific profession, he revealed over 30 books and 600 brief tales, many within the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, till his demise in 2012 at age 91. 

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Bradbury was a 2004 recipient of the Nationwide Medal of the Arts, and held accolades just like the Nationwide E-book Basis Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and a Pulitzer Prize Particular Quotation. Additionally an Emmy-winning screenwriter, Bradbury wrote scripts for exhibits like The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

The brand new audiobooks are actually obtainable for preorder.

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