"To the Chicago Abyss"

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Title	"To the Chicago Abyss"
Year for Search	1972
Authors	Bradbury, Ray[mond Douglas](1920-2012)
Tertiary Authors	Bradbury, Ray
Secondary Title	The Wonderful Ice Cream and Other Plays
Pagination	127-61
Date Published	1972
Publisher	Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
Place Published	London
Keywords	Male author, US author
Annotation	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.
Additional Publishers	Can ed. (Toronto, ON, Canada: Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972), 127-61.
Info Notes	Play first performed in Chicago October 14, 1964. Published separately Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1988. On television as part of “The Ray Bradbury Theater” September 22, 1989. Adapted by Bradbury from “To the Chicago Abyss.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 24.5 (144) (May 1963): 30-39. Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 4.10 (September 1963): 103-12; in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25^th Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1974), 57-66; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 261-71; and in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2^nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 137-44.
Holding Institutions	Merril, PSt
Author Note	(1920-2012)
Full Text	1972 Bradbury, Ray[mond Douglas] (1920-2012). “To the Chicago Abyss.” In his The Wonderful Ice Cream and Other Plays (London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1972), 127-61. Can ed. (Toronto, ON, Canada: Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972), 127-61. Play first performed in Chicago October 14, 1964. Published separately Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1988. On television as part of “The Ray Bradbury Theater” September 22, 1989. Adapted by Bradbury from “To the Chicago Abyss.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 24.5 (144) (May 1963): 30-39. Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 4.10 (September 1963): 103-12; in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25^th Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1974), 57-66; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 261-71; and in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2^nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 137-44. Merril, PSt 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.