S is for Space (1966) is a collection of science fiction short stories written by Ray Bradbury. It was compiled for the Young Adult sections of libraries.
Contents
;"Chrysalis"
:A science fiction story in which three men anxiously watch their fellow-scientist as he is encased in a mysterious green chrysalis. They eventually come to believe he is undergoing metamorphosis inside the chrysalis.
;"Pillar of Fire"
:A science fiction/horror short novel. Set in the year 2349, it depicts a Utopian society in which all corpses are incinerated for hygienic reasons. All horror literature has also been burned to produce a healthier mindset. When his grave is disturbed, a man who died four centuries earlier rises from his tomb to infiltrate the utopia and launch a vendetta to restore fear.
;"Zero Hour"
:A science fiction story, involving a world-wide befriending of children by sinister aliens.
;"The Man"
:A rocket ship lands on an isolated planet, expecting an astounded welcome. However, they find they have been preceded by a much more important visitor.
;"Time in Thy Flight"
:A science fiction story. A high-school teacher takes three children on a field-trip in a time machine.
;"The Pedestrian"
:A science fiction story about a society addicted to television.
;"Hail and Farewell"
:A fantasy story concerning a middle-aged man who never physically aged past his pre-adolescence.
;"Invisible Boy"
:A comical story about an old woman who convinces a boy she has turned him invisible.
;"Come into My Cellar"
:A science fiction story about mushrooms and alien invasions.
;"The Million-Year Picnic"
:A science fiction story in which a family travels to an unsullied Mars to escape a ravaged Earth. Previously adapted as the final chapter of The Martian Chronicles (1950).
;"The Screaming Woman"
:A mystery/suspense story, describing a young girl who tries to procure help in digging up a woman buried in an empty lot.
;"The Smile"
:A science fiction story describing a world devastated by nuclear war, whose inhabitants systematically destroy artifacts of the past. The story touches on one boy who is enchanted by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
;"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"
:An atomic war on Earth drives a family to flee to a human colony Mars.
;"The Trolley"
:An idyllic story about the last trolley-ride in a small town.
;"The Flying Machine"
:A story set in ancient China, whose Emperor discovers a peasant has invented a flying-machine.
;"Icarus Montgolfier Wright"
:A story concerning the first man to fly a rocket ship.