You’ll enjoy this story, but I’ll give away no more beyond the quote below. By the way, if you get the original publication, you’ll also see Kurt Vonnegut and Marilyn Monroe.
—Michael Main
What can I do to save us from ourselves? How to save my friends, my city, my state, my country, the entire world from this obsession with doom? Well, it was in my library late one night that my hand, searching along shelves, touched at last on an old and beloved book by H. G. Wells. His time device called, ghostlike, down the years. I heard! I understood. I truly listened. Then I blueprinted. I built. I traveled [. . .]

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  1. “The Toynbee Convector” by Ray Bradbury, Playboy,January 1984.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ray Bradbury
  2. “Le convecteur Toynbee” by Ray Bradbury, in A l’ouest d’octobre (Denoël, December 1989).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ray Bradbury
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Jacques Chambon
  3. “Il Convettore di Toynbee” by Ray Bradbury, in Viaggiatore del tempo. Racconti (January 2003).
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ray Bradbury
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Andrea Terzi

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  1. “The Toynbee Convector” by Ray Bradbury, directed by John Laing (26 October 1990).

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