The Illustrated ManThe Illustrated Man, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage, is available from Simon & Schuster for the first time. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Provocative and powerful, The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth—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. |
Contents
The Illustrated Man | 1 |
Kaleidoscope | 28 |
The Highway | 57 |
The Long Rain | 78 |
The Rocket Man | 97 |
The Fire Balloons | 112 |
The Last Night of the World | 136 |
No Particular Night or Morning | 159 |
The Fox and the Forest | 172 |
The Visitor | 192 |
The Concrete Mixer | 209 |
Marionettes Inc | 234 |
Zero Hour | 254 |
The Rocket | 267 |
Epilogue | 281 |
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