Bradbury, Ray: Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorraw

This summer I traveled to the Great Northern Woods of New Hampshire, where my lady friend’s family gathered to clean out a barn. In the loft, my girlfriend found several science fiction paperbacks which, fortunately, hadn’t been damaged by mice or weather. When she discovered “Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow,” I felt compelled to snag it. Edited by the late Ray Bradbury, this collection of short stories operates on two premises. The collection’s title explains the first, and Bradbury outlines the other in the introduction: to present stories written by authors who do not often write fantasy. For him, the importance of these stories are the “facets of fantasy” they employ—small tricks that would turn an otherwise realistic story on its head.