QUICKER THAN THE EYE is an original publication of Avon Books. This work has never before appeared in hook form. This is a collection of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-20481

ISBN:            0-380-97380-4

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data:

Bradbury, Ray, 1920

Quicker than the eye~ Ray Bradbuty.-lst ed.

p.  cm.

I.   Title.

P53503.R167Q53            1996            96-20481

8l3’.54-dc20                CIP

First Avon Books Hardcover Printing: December 1996

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