query: genre the golden apples of the sun
supports: The Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of short stories by Ray Bradbury . When the book was first published in 1953 , it contained 22 stories . The 1997 edition adds 10 more stories , and changes the order in which they appear . One of the stories is also the book 's namesake . The words `` the golden apples of the sun '' are from the last line of the final stanza of W. B. Yeats ' poem `` The Song of Wandering Aengus '' ( 1899 ) : `` Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands , Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author. Fantasy is a fiction genre set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world. Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Magic and magical creatures are common in many of these imaginary worlds. Fantasy is generally distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three, all of which are subgenres of speculative fiction. Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved. In a closed circle of suspects, each suspect must have a credible motive and a reasonable opportunity for committing the crime. The central character must be a detective who eventually solves the mystery by logical deduction from facts fairly presented to the reader. Sometimes mystery books are nonfictional. "Mystery fiction" can be detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle or suspense element and its logical solution such as a whodunit. Mystery fiction can be contrasted with hardboiled detective stories, which focus on action and gritty realism. Science fiction (often shortened to SF, sci-fi or scifi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas." It usually avoids the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically science fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection is now limited to hard science fiction.
candidates: action crime detective fantasy fiction hardboiled literature mystery mystery fiction science fiction speculative speculative fiction supernatural technology time travel whodunit
answer: science fiction