Title: Almost the End of the World

Title: Almost the End of the World Title Record # 64834
Author: Ray Bradbury
Date: 1957-12-26
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: First published in The Reporter (December 26, 1957)

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Year	Language	Title
1965^ⓘTranslated by Mário Braga and Maria Isabel Morna Braga	Portuguese	Ia sendo o fim do mundo
1965^ⓘTranslated by Jean-Pierre Harrison	French	Presque la fin du monde
1970^ⓘTranslated by Franz Weyergans	French	Presque la fin du monde [as by Ray Douglas Bradbury]
1970^ⓘTranslated by Sandro Sandrelli	Italian	Quasi la fine del mondo
1983	Portuguese	Quase o Fim do Mundo
1985^ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Peter%20Naujack&type=Name&mode=exact">Peter Naujack</a>	German	Fast am Ende der Welt

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Day It Rained Forever	1959-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Hart-Davis		13/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	254	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Joe Mugnaini
The Day It Rained Forever	1960-05-00	Ray Bradbury	The Science Fiction Book Club (UK)	44	5/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	254	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	C. W. Bacon
The Day It Rained Forever	1963-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	1878	3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Max Ernst
The Day It Rained Forever	1964-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	1878	3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	232+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Max Ernst
The Machineries of Joy	1964-02-00	Ray Bradbury	Simon & Schuster		$4.50^?$: US dollar	255	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Isadore Seltzer
Les machines à bonheur	1965-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #84-85)		F9.90^?F: French frank	313	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
As máquinas da alegria	1965-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #93)			171	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Lima de Freitas
The Machineries of Joy	1965-07-00	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	H2988	$0.60^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	1965-07-00	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	H2988	C$0.60^?C$: Canadian dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	1966-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers	GN7489	3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Day It Rained Forever	1966-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	1878	4/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Romek Marber
Machineries of Joy	1969-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers	0-552-08275-9	5/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Bruce Pennington
The Day It Rained Forever	1969-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	1878	£0.25^?£: UK pound	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Franco Grignani
The Machineries of Joy	1969-06-00	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	S5258	$0.75^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Après	1970-00-00	ed. Charles Nuetzel	Marabout ( Bibliothèque Marabout - Science Fiction^?Bibliotheque Marabout - Science Fiction #345)			302	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Le macchine della felicità	1970-04-00	Ray Bradbury	Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Science Fiction Book Club (Italy) #39)		Lit 2,200^?Lit: Italian lira	286	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Gian Mario Scuratti
The Machineries of Joy	1970-07-00	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	S5258	$0.75^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Les machines à bonheur	1970-09-09	Ray Bradbury	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #84/85)			313	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Day It Rained Forever	1974-11-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	0-14-001878-6	£0.40^?£: UK pound	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	David Pelham
The Machineries of Joy	1976-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	Q2324	$1.25^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	1976-09-00	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	0-553-02834-0	$1.50^?$: US dollar	245	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	1977-06-00	Ray Bradbury	Panther / Granada	0-586-04361-6	£0.60^?£: UK pound	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Peter Goodfellow
The Day It Rained Forever	1978-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	0-14-001878-6	£0.85^?£: UK pound	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	David Pelham
The Day It Rained Forever	1980-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	0-14-001878-6	£0.95^?£: UK pound	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Adrian Chesterman
Les machines à bonheur	1980-05-30	Ray Bradbury	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #84)			317	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Stéphane Dumont^?Stephane Dumont
The Day It Rained Forever	1981-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books	0-14-001878-6	£1.75^?£: UK pound	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Adrian Chesterman
The Machineries of Joy	1983-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Granada	0-586-04361-6	£1.50^?£: UK pound	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Peter Goodfellow
As Máquinas do Prazer	1983-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Francisco Alves (Mestres do horror e da fantasia #11)			290	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	1983-02-00	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	0-553-23120-0	$2.75^?$: US dollar	245	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Tito Salomoni
Die Mechanismen der Freude	1985-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Diogenes (detebe #21242)	3-257-21242-9	DM 9.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	316	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Tomi Ungerer
The Day It Rained Forever	1987-10-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books (Penguin Classic Science Fiction)	0-14-010120-9	£3.95^?£: UK pound	233	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Keith Scaife
The Day It Rained Forever	1988-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Penguin Books (Penguin Classic Science Fiction)	0-14-010120-9	£3.99^?£: UK pound	233	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Keith Scaife
The Machineries of Joy	1988-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Granada	0-586-04361-6	£2.95^?£: UK pound	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Peter Goodfellow
Les machines à bonheur	1988-04-00	Ray Bradbury	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #84)	2-207-30084-6		317	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Marie-Christine Forest
The Day It Rained Forever	1991-11-00	Ray Bradbury	Roc UK	0-14-015246-6	£4.50^?£: UK pound	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Fred Gambino
Les machines à bonheur^?Les machines a bonheur	2000-01-00	Ray Bradbury	Denoël^?Denoel ( Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur #84)	2-207-25066-0		317	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Vincent Froissard
The Machineries of Joy	2000-12-00	Ray Bradbury	Earthlight	0-671-03771-4	£5.99^?£: UK pound	255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Trevor Scobie
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales	2003-08-00	Ray Bradbury	William Morrow / HarperCollins	0-06-054242-X	$29.95^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 893	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard L. Aquan
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales	2003-09-00	Ray Bradbury	William Morrow / HarperCollins / SFBC	01567	$14.99^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 893	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales	2003-10-00	Ray Bradbury	The Easton Press (Signed First Editions of Science Fiction #192)	106-192		xv+ 893	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales	2005-04-00	Ray Bradbury	Perennial / HarperCollins	0-06-054488-0	$17.95^?$: US dollar	xv+ 893	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Richard L. Aquan
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales	2007-00-00	Ray Bradbury	Perennial / HarperCollins	0-06-054488-0	$17.95^?$: US dollar	xv+ 888+ 5	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Les machines à bonheur^?Les machines a bonheur	2008-06-02	Ray Bradbury	Denoël^?Denoel (Folio SF #312)	978-2-07-034842-8		465	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Matthias Haddad
The Day It Rained Forever	2008-11-00	Ray Bradbury	PS Publishing	978-1-905834-42-6	£20.00^?£: UK pound	256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Tomislav Tikulin
The Day It Rained Forever	2008-11-00	Ray Bradbury	PS Publishing	978-1-905834-43-3	£50.00^?£: UK pound	256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Tomislav Tikulin
The Day It Rained Forever / A Medicine for Melancholy	2008-11-00	Ray Bradbury	PS Publishing	978-1-84863-006-2	£250.00^?£: UK pound	viii+ 256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Tomislav Tikulin , Chris Roberts
Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2	2008-12-00	Ray Bradbury	HarperVoyager	978-0-00-728058-2	£16.99^?£: UK pound	xvi+ 841	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 2	2012-06-28	Ray Bradbury	Harper Voyager (UK)	978-0-00-749769-0	£1.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Grafton	0-586-04361-6	£4.99^?£: UK pound	255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Steve Crisp
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	S5258	$0.75^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	S5258	$0.75^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	N8304	$0.95^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	H2988	$0.60^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Grafton	0-586-04361-6	£4.99^?£: UK pound	255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Steve Crisp
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	0-553-24695-X	$2.95^?$: US dollar	245	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Tito Salomoni
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	H2988	$0.60^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	William Morrow	978-0-06-054488-1	$25.99^?$: US dollar	xv+ 893	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Richard L. Aquan
The Machineries of Joy	date unknown	Ray Bradbury	Bantam Books	S5258	$0.75^?$: US dollar	213	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll

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