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The Fox and the Forest

Ray Bradbury

First published February 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A couple escape from a dystopic future into contemporary Mexico and attempt to evade discovery by agents of the future seeking to return them.

Originally published in Collier's, May 13, 1950 as "To the Future".

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February 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection |13
February 1951 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
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September 1951 Cover The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 Frederick Fell Anthology 254
1952 Cover The Best Science Fiction Stories: Second Series Grayson & Grayson Anthology 197
1952 Cover The Illustrated Man Hart-Davis Collection
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1953 The Illustrated Man Doubleday / SFBC Collection 158
July 1953 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
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1955 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 150
April 1958 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
1960 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 150
April 1961 The Illustrated Man Doubleday Collection
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1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
September 1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
September 1963 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
1965 The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection
August 1965 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
September 1965 Cover The Vintage Bradbury Vintage Books Collection 161
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December 1965 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
1966 The Vintage Bradbury Vintage Books Collection
June 1967 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
March 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
March 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
September 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Doubleday / SFBC Collection 158
December 1969 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 114
1972 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Collection 114
July 1972 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
1974 Cover The Illustrated Man Corgi Collection 114
1975 Cover 2001 and Beyond: Science Fiction Stories Longman Anthology 39
November 1976 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
January 1977 Cover The Illustrated Man Panther Collection 131
June 1977 Cover The Illustrated Man Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Collection
April 1978 The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
August 1979 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
1980 The Illustrated Man Panther Collection 131
October 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 131
December 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 131
1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Granada Collection 131
1981 The Illustrated Man Panther Collection 131
February 1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 131
1982 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
August 1982 The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
August 1982 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
1983 The Illustrated Man Panther / Granada Collection 131
January 1983 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Granada Collection
1984 Cover The Illustrated Man Panther / Granada Collection 131
1985 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Granada Collection
1986 The Illustrated Man Grafton Collection 131
1987 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Grafton Collection 225
1988 The Illustrated Man Grafton Collection 131
January 1988 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Books Collection 114
May 1990 Cover The Illustrated Man Bantam Spectra Collection
July 1990 The Vintage Bradbury Vintage Books Collection 161
October 1990 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 131
May 1996 Cover The Illustrated Man Gauntlet Press Collection
June 1997 Cover The Illustrated Man Avon Books Collection 149
2001 Cover The Illustrated Man William Morrow / HarperCollins Collection 149
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August 2002 Cover The Illustrated Man Voyager Classics / HarperCollins Collection 152
August 2008 Cover The Illustrated Man HarperVoyager Collection 185
August 2008 Cover The Illustrated Man Paw Prints Collection
December 2008 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 HarperVoyager Collection
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 162
January 2011 Cover The Martian Chronicles / The Illustrated Man / The Golden Apples of the Sun Barnes & Noble Books Omnibus 396
October 2011 Cover The Illustrated Man Harper Perennial Modern Classics Collection 149
2012 Cover The Illustrated Man The Easton Press Collection 158
March 2012 Cover The Illustrated Man Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Collection
June 2012 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
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