Рэй Дуглас Брэдбери – The Toynbee Convector (страница 1)
THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR
Ray Bradbury
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First published by Alfred A. Knopf June 1988
Some of these stories originally appeared in
Copyright © Ray Bradbury 1988
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JULIA
CLAIRE
GEORGIA
MALLORY
Table of Contents
The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair
I Suppose You Are Wondering Why We Are Here?
One for His Lordship, and One for the Road!
At Midnight, in the Month of June
Bless Me, Father, for I Have Sinned
The Thing at the Top of the Stairs
Colonel Stonesteel’s Genuine Home-made Truly Egyptian Mummy
“Good! Great! Bravo for me!”
Roger Shumway flung himself into the seat, buckled himself in, revved the rotor and drifted his Dragonfly Super-6 helicopter up to blow away on the summer sky, heading south toward La Jolla.