The Illustrated man

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / Classic / Bradbury, Ray
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Short stories originally published between 1948 and 1951.
Prologue: The illustrated man -- Veldt -- Kaleidoscope -- Other foot -- Highway -- Man -- Long rain -- Rocket man -- Last night of the world -- Exiles -- No particular night or morning -- Fox and the forest -- Visitor -- Concrete mixer -- Marionettes, Inc. -- City -- Zero hour -- Rocket -- Illustrated man.
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 skin - visions 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 selling 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.

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2nd favorite book submitted by thomasgoldring on August 1, 2018, 9:11pm I think his style is best when represented in short stories.

Fantastic! submitted by Harlowamy on August 28, 2020, 12:07pm The best author in science-fiction this is my favorite collection of short stories from him.