The Long Rain

The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Rupert Hart-Davis
London 1962

'The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunnelled the soil and moulted the bushes. It shrank men's hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped.'

Excerpt from The Long Rain

Not strictly an OOP book but I particularly liked this collection of short stories found in a fourth edition The Illustrated Man from Lewisham Libraries stack.