“The Toynbee Convector”
| Title | “The Toynbee Convector” |
| Year for Search | 1984 |
| Authors | Bradbury, Ray[mond Douglas](1920-2012) |
| Tertiary Authors | Bradbury, Ray |
| Secondary Title | Playboy |
| Pagination | 152-54, 158, 230, 232 |
| Date Published | January 1984 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 3-15. Rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), 1-11 |
| Illustration | Illus. Michael O’Brien |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1920-2012) |
| Full Text | 1984 Bradbury, Ray[mond Douglas] (1920-2012). “The Toynbee Convector.” Illus. Michael O’Brien. Playboy (January 1984): 152-154, 158, 230, 232. Rpt. in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 3-15. Rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), 1-11. PSt 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. |
