Authors: Ray Bradbury
ISBN-13: 9780553274493, ISBN-10: 055327449X
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: November 1983
Edition: Reissue
A veteran sci-fi author with side talents for poetry, plays and screenwriting, Ray Bradbury has had a long career of provoking thought and a compelling uneasiness in generations of readers. But rather than create worlds made for escape, Bradbury refracts our own foibles through otherworldly prisms.
Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decadesfrom The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skinvisions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.
The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness ... the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere ... the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.
Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.
He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.
Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decadesfrom The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
THE ILLUSTRATED MAN is classic Bradburya collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skinvisions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.
The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness...the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere...the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury's THE ILLUSTRATEDMAN is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.
Prologue: The Illustrated Man | 1 | |
The Veldt | 7 | |
Kaleidoscope | 26 | |
The Other Foot | 38 | |
The Highway | 56 | |
The Man | 62 | |
The Long Rain | 78 | |
The Rocket Man | 97 | |
The Last Night of the World | 112 | |
The Exiles | 118 | |
No Particular Night or Morning | 136 | |
The Fox and the Forest | 149 | |
The Visitor | 169 | |
The Concrete Mixer | 186 | |
Marionettes, Inc | 211 | |
The City | 222 | |
Zero Hour | 232 | |
The Rocket | 245 | |
The Illustrated Man | 258 | |
Epilogue | 275 |