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The Toynbee Convector is a short story collection by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...

. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines Playboy
Playboy
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, Omni
Omni (magazine)
OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction...

, Gallery
Gallery (magazine)
Gallery is a men's magazine begun by Montcalm Publishing in 1972. It is one of the more popular "skin" magazines that arose on the Playboy magazine pattern in the 1970s...

, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction...

, Woman's Day
Woman's Day
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, and Weird Tales
Weird Tales
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

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"The Toynbee Convector
The Toynbee Convector
"The Toynbee Convector" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. First published in Playboy magazine in 1984, the story was subsequently featured in a 1988 short story collection also titled The Toynbee Convector.-Plot summary:...

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"Trapdoor"
"On the Orient, North"
"One Night in Your Life"
"West of October"
"The Last Circus"
"The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair"
"I Suppose You Are Wondering Why We Are Here?"
"Lafayette, Farewell"
"Banshee"
"Promises, Promises"
"The Love Affair"
"One for His Lordship, and One for the Road!"
"At Midnight, in the Month of June"
"Bless Me Father, for I Have Sinned"
"By the Numbers!"
"A Touch of Petulance"
"Long Division"
"Come, and Bring Constance!"
"Junior"
"The Tombstone"
"The Thing at the Top of the Stairs"
"Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy"

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