Authors: Ray Bradbury
ISBN-13: 9781433297199, ISBN-10: 1433297191
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Date Published: October 2009
Edition: Unabridged
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's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the grand master's premier accomplishments. Collected here are eighteen tales, startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.
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 |