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The Utterly Perfect Murder
- by Ray Bradbury
- in Playboy, August 1971
A moving story of an outcast boy who continued to feel the pain of how he’d been excluded throughout his adult life. You’ll need to decide for yourself whether time travel creeps in. —Michael Main
I tossed the few bits of gravel and did the thing that had never been done, ever in my life.
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The Toynbee Convector
- by Ray Bradbury
- Playboy,January 1984
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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The Millennium Express
- by Robert Silverberg
- Playboy, January 2000
Reconstructions of Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and a 27th-century man are blowing things up at the close of the fourth millennium. —Michael Main
Or you, Pablo: you of all people ought to prefer to have all those paintings and sculptures sink unharmed into the ground rather than having them be blown sky-high.