The Toynbee Convector

By Ray Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.

THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR is a brilliant short story collection from one of the genre’s master storytellers. 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.

Bradbury displays the unclassifiable versatility of his imagination in this collection of twenty stories.

Format: ebook
Release Date: 21 Aug 2014
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-753980-2
One of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time, Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920. He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1934. Since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old, he published some 500 short stories, novels, plays, scripts and poems. Among his many famous works are Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury died in 2012 at the age of 91.

'Let us now praise Ray Bradbury, the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction.' The Times -

'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator -

”'Bradbury is an authentic original” - Time Magazine

”'No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas - with discipline” - Sunday Telegraph