“Hollerbochen’s Dilemma”
1938-01-00
flash fiction
By Ray Bradbury

Hollerbochen 1

Synopsis

Hollerbochen can see the future and sees his own death.

History

First publication: Imagination!, January 1938

1939 RetroHugo finalist for best short story.

Review

Bradbury’s first fiction is in a fanzine and he was still a teenager. This story has an interesting idea, but is very ameteurish. Only recommended to the diehard Bradbury fan.


Videos


We have the story in these editions:

The Earliest Bradbury, edited by David and Daniel Ritter, hardcover, First Fandom Experience, 2020-00-00

The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume I: 1938-1943, edited by William F. Touponce and Jonathan R. Eller, hardcover, Kent State University Press, 2011-04-00



All of the stories in the Hollerbochen series:
1 Hollerbochen’s Dilemma
2 Hollerbochen Comes Back: or The Voyage of the Neuralgia