The Toynbee Convector (short story collection)

The Toynbee Convector

dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Publisher	Knopf
Publication date	1988
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	275 pp
ISBN	0-394-54703-9
OCLC	424449064
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3503.R167 T69 1988

The Toynbee Convector is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines Playboy, Omni, Gallery, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Woman's Day, and Weird Tales.

Contents

• "The Toynbee Convector"
• "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"

References

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)". Retrieved 2007-12-01.

External links

• The Toynbee Convector title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Toynbee Convector  publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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