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The Playground

by Ray Bradbury
Unlike the the TV adaptation of this fantasy, there’s no doubt in this original version that time travel plays no role in the lives of Charles Underwood and his son.
— Michael Main
He heard the voice and turned to see who had called him. There on top of a metal slide, a boy of some nine years was waving. “Hello, Charlie . . . !”
DEBUT
[ex=bare]“The Playground” | Tyrannosaurus Rex[/ex], in The Illustrated Man (Har-Davis, 1952).
VARIANTS
1 English variant
DERIVATIVE WORKS
  1. “The Playground” by Ray Bradbury, directed by William Fruet, (HBO, USA, 4 June 1985).
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INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • Release—Prior to 1977, the story had many publications, but it appeared in only one edition of <em>The Illustrated Man,</em> which was the first UK edition (1952).