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Ah! You seen one Earth, you've seen them all.

— Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17

Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow

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Editor, contributor, and writer of introduction
Ray Bradbury
Contributors
Christine Noble Govan, Christopher Isherwood, E. B. White, Franz Kafka, Helen Eustis, Henry Kuttner, Hortense Calisher, J. C. Furnas, Jean Hrolda, John B. L. Goodwin, John Cheever, John Keir Cross, John Steinbeck, Josephine W. Johnson, Ludwig Bemelmans, Nigel Kneale, Roald Dahl, Robert M. Coates, Russell Maloney, Shirley Jackson, Sidney Carroll, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Wessel Hyatt Smitter, and William Sansom
Language
English
Original language
English
Publisher
Bantam Books
Categories
Anthology, science fiction, and short stories
Publication year
1970
Original publication year
1952
Pages
258
Has read?
No
Debut?
No

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • The Hour After Westerly, by Robert M. Coates
  • Housing Problem, by Henry Kuttner
  • The Portable Phonograph, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • None Before Me, by Sidney Carroll
  • Putzi, by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • The Daemon Lover, by Shirley Jackson
  • Miss Winters and the Wind, by Christine Noble Govan
  • Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman (The Rider on the Pale Horse), by Helen Eustis
  • Jeremy in the Wind, by Nigel Kneale
  • The Glass Eye, by John Keir Cross
  • Saint Katy the Virgin, by John Steinbeck
  • Night Flight, by Josephine W. Johnson
  • The Cocoon, by John B. L. Goodwin
  • The Hand, by Wessel Hyatt Smitter
  • The Sound Machine, by Roald Dahl
  • The Laocoön Complex, by J. C. Furnas
  • I Am Waiting, by Christopher Isherwood
  • The Witnesses, by William Sansom
  • The Enormous Radio, by John Cheever
  • Heartburn, by Hortense Calisher
  • The Supremacy of Uruguay, E. B. White
  • The Pedestrian, by Ray Bradbury
  • A Note for the Milkman, by Sidney Carroll
  • The Eight Mistresses, by Jean Hrolda
  • In the Penal Colony, by Franz Kafka
  • Inflexible Logic, by Russell Maloney