To the south, or to your left, are bookshelves containing research copies of Bradbury’s books in various editions and printings.
You take a few steps south.
The foreign editions you see in the shelves to your right, or to the west, include texts in Arabic, Russian, Tamil, Armenian, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Danish among others. To date the Bradbury Center has five bookcases of foreign editions, and the Center receives new copies whenever new editions are released world-wide.
Along the wall to your left, or the east wall, are file cabinets containing research materials which include photocopies of Bradbury correspondence, typescripts and photocopies of various institutional and private collections. Directly to your left is a copy of the Challenger Memorial Poster signed by family members of the Challenger crew. Ray Bradbury was the keynote speaker at the Challenger Center for Space Science Education National Benefit on April 29, 1993.
Walking south, or straight, you will see our Genre Reference Library to your right. This library includes genre anthologies, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and detective books as well as iconographic (picture books) about genres.
The Center also has a section that contains approximately 1850 science fiction, fantasy, and other genre magazines including very rare pulp magazines issued from 1914 through the 1990s. These include over 1600 pulp magazines owned by Ray Bradbury, many of which contain stories written by him.
When you reach the far southeast corner of the room, you will begin to notice posters and artifacts from Disney. Ray Bradbury had over a 40-year association with Walt Disney and Walt Disney Enterprises. He was a creative consultant for Epcot/Disney World in 1982 and worked with Tim Delaney, head of the Disney Imagineers as well as Marty Sklar who designed and set up the Disney theme parks around the world, and Disney Executive, John Hench who designed attractions for Disneyland. You see John Hench on the left and Marty Sklar on the right in a picture with Ray Bradbury. Bradbury’s concept of Spaceship Earth at Epcot included his narration for visitors. Dame Judi Dench voices the narration now, using a script evolved from Bradbury’s original.