Quicker Than the Eye

''Quicker Than the Eye'' (, 1996 Avon Books) is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury.

Background

The anthology features 21 stories that had not yet appeared in book form. ''Quicker Than the Eye'' features a mix of 11 old and 10 new stories.

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", a 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.

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1996 short story collections
Short story collections by Ray Bradbury
Short fiction about time travel
Avon (publisher) books

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