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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-380-97380-4

Originally published
  
1996

Publisher
  
Avon

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1996

Pages
  
262 pp

OCLC
  
34699566

Author
  
Ray Bradbury

Cover artist
  
Bernie Fuchs

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Ray Bradbury books, Short Stories

Quicker Than the Eye (ISBN 0-380-97380-4, 1996 Avon Books) is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury, published nearly a decade after his last collection.

Contents

  • "Unterderseaboat Doktor", which features, as a psychiatrist, a former submarine captain in Hitler's undersea fleet, making connections between sub-marine and sub-conscious.
  • "Zaharoff/Richter Mark V", a speculation on why so many major cities are in such dangerous locales.
  • "Remember Sascha?"
  • "Another Fine Mess", an homage to Laurel and Hardy; a sequel to "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair".
  • "The Electrocution"
  • "Hopscotch"
  • "The Finnegan", a tall tale in a Victorian mood.
  • "That Woman on the Lawn, a tangential episode in the same "universe" as Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • "The Very Gentle Murders", a fantasy of marital strife
  • "Quicker Than the Eye", which visits another carnival act.
  • "Dorian In Excelsis", which pays homage to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • "No News, Or What Killed the Dog?"
  • "The Witch Door"
  • "The Ghost in the Machine"
  • "At the End Of the Ninth Year"
  • "Bug"
  • "Once More, Legato"
  • "Exchange"
  • "Free Dirt"
  • "Last Rites"
  • "The Other Highway"
  • "Make Haste To Live: An Afterword", in which the author writes of writing and the back-stories of some of the stories in this collection.

    • References

    Quicker Than the Eye Wikipedia
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