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"The Toynbee Convector" is a science fiction short story. First published in *Playboy* magazine in 1984, the story was subsequently featured in a 1988 short story collection also titled *The Toynbee Convector*. Bradbury presents 23 enthralling tales in which the wondrous and the unexpected are revealed in hidden facets of the real. A stunning collection of the kind of fiction that has only one source: the unparalleled Ray Bradbury.
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- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- "E KSMO", Simon & Schuster, Dutton Books
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- German, Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780586205785
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Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his stature i
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