@booklet {9453, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Toynbee Convector{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Playboy}, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 3-15.\ Rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), 1-11

}, month = {January 1984}, pages = {152-54, 158, 230, 232}, abstract = {

In a U.S. with all the problems of inequality, international political conflicts, a damaged environment, and so forth, a man fakes a trip to the future and on his return he announces that the human race has solved all its problems, which gives people the will to actually do so.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} } @booklet {2520, title = {"To the Chicago Abyss"}, howpublished = {The Wonderful Ice Cream and Other Plays}, year = {1972}, note = {

Can ed. (Toronto, ON, Canada: Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972), 127-61.

}, month = {1972}, pages = {127-61}, publisher = {Hart-Davis, MacGibbon}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia where the minor artifacts of the past are remembered by an old man, who is arrested for reminding people of the little things, Bradbury calls them \"mediocrities\", they used to have.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012)} }