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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553274493
ISBN: 055327449X
Label: Spectra
Manufacturer: Spectra
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: November 01, 1983
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date: November 01, 1983
Studio: Spectra
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Editorial Review:
That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley Wiater
He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.The Illustrated ManRay Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from 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 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 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 decades--from 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 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 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A good intro to the genre
This was my introduction to Science Fiction although some of the stories are perhaps more horror/fantasy than science fiction. And yes, there is a lot of unevenness in the quality of the stories - some are really exceptional and haunting and some are over before ever getting started. Truth is, even those are good but they require much more participation on the part of the reader! My only real complaint is that this edition (like most!) does not include, "The Playground" which is a very powerful ... Read More
Rating:  - That uncanny way--"Illustrating" in brutal honesty of humans
I've read many of the 1 star reviews of this book. And I repeatedly told them that to enjoy any science fiction, you must suspend their disbelief. The reader must judge the truth of what happens within the scope of the world created by the author, not by the world as we know it.
Sure there are always going to be opinions and I take that for granted.
Keeping in mind that Ray Bradbury has an uncanny way of introducing and writing his works, and his works bieng VERY odd. YOu find some ... Read More
Rating: - Interested in the Human Mind?
I would recommend this book for anyone interested in the workings of the human mind. The vehicle - a man covered with illustrations - Bradbury uses to give us insight into the strengths and frailties of the human psyche is ingenious and as always his literary expertise provides for a spell-binding read.
Rating:  - Not Free SF Reader
A collection that is again basically science fiction, at least of Bradbury's particular Martian variety, among others. The most entertaining of which is 'The Exiles'. Again, all very old-fashioned.
There's an old prologue introducing 'The Illustrated Man' who sets out to recount the stories. Not sure there's a lot of point to doing that in such limited fashion.
Basically a 3.25 book, but rounding down in this case.
Illustrated Man : The Veldt - Ray Bradbury
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Rating: - pretty good
this was my first ray bradbury novel i have ever read and after reading a few of his others...I saw this is the one that makes the most sense..the others were just plain confusing. Anyways, this book is about man with tattoos that come to life and tell stories about the future...its a pretty good book and you should check it out. Don't stop reading after the first story; it's a little demented (to me) but it's still great and i loved it.
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