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{{Infobox book | | name = Quicker Than the Eye | title_orig = | translator = | image = Quicker than the eye.jpg | caption = dust-jacket from the first edition | author = Ray Bradbury | illustrator = | cover_artist = Bernie Fuchs | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Fantasy, science fiction | publisher = Avon Books | release_date = 1996 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (hardback) | pages = 262 pp | isbn = 0-380-97380-4 | dewey= 813/.54 20 | congress= PS3503.R167 Q53 1996 | oclc= 34699566 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Quicker Than the Eye ({{ISBN|0-380-97380-4}}, 1996 Avon Books) is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury, published nearly a decade after his last collection. Contents- "Unterderseaboat Doktor", which features, as a psychiatrist, a former submarine captain in Hitler's undersea fleet, making connections between sub-marine and sub-conscious.
- "Zaharoff/Richter Mark V", a speculation on why so many major cities are in such dangerous locales.
- "Remember Sascha?"
- "Another Fine Mess", a homage to Laurel and Hardy; a sequel to "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair".
- "The Electrocution"
- "Hopscotch"
- "The Finnegan", a tall tale in a Victorian mood.
- "That Woman on the Lawn, a tangential episode in the same "universe" as Something Wicked This Way Comes
- "The Very Gentle Murders", a fantasy of marital strife
- "Quicker Than the Eye", which visits another carnival act.
- "Dorian In Excelsis", which pays homage to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
- "No News, Or What Killed the Dog?"
- "The Witch Door"
- "The Ghost in the Machine"
- "At the End Of the Ninth Year"
- "Bug"
- "Once More, Legato"
- "Exchange"
- "Free Dirt"
- "Last Rites"
- "The Other Highway"
- "Make Haste To Live: An Afterword", in which the author writes of writing and the back-stories of some of the stories in this collection.
References- {{cite web | last = Brown | first = Charles N. | authorlink = Charles N. Brown |author2=William G. Contento | title = The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998) | url = http://www.locusmag.com/index/t353.htm#A34595 | accessdate = 2007-12-12}}
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