One More for the Road (short story collection)

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One More for the Road
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dust-jacket from the first edition
Author Ray Bradbury
Cover artistJosé Luis Merino
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
Publisher William Morrow
Publication date
April, 2002
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages289 pp
ISBN 0-06-621106-9
OCLC 46952194
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3503.R167 O54 2002

One More for the Road is a 2002 collection of 25 short stories written by Ray Bradbury.

Contents

Contents

  1. "First Day"
  2. "Heart Transplant"
  3. "Quid Pro Quo"
  4. "After the Ball"
  5. "In Memoriam"
  6. "Téte-á-Téte"
  7. "The Dragon Danced at Midnight"
  8. "The Nineteenth"
  9. "Beasts"
  10. "Autumn Afternoon"
  11. "Where All Is Emptiness There Is Room to Move"
  12. "One-Woman Show"
  13. "The Laurel and Hardy Alpha Centauri Farewell Tour"
  14. "Leftovers"
  15. "One More for the Road"
  16. "Tangerine"
  17. "With Smiles as Wide as Summer"
  18. "Time Intervening"
  19. "The Enemy in the Wheat"
  20. "Fore!"
  21. "My Son, Max"
  22. "The F.Scott/Tolstoy/Ahab Accumulator"
  23. "Well, What Do You Have to Say for Yourself?"
  24. "Diane de Forét"
  25. "The Cricket on the Hearth"
  26. Afterword: Metaphors, the Breakfast of Champions

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