Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780006479222
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0006479227
Label: HarperVoyager
Manufacturer: HarperVoyager
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: November 13, 1995
Publisher: HarperVoyager
Studio: HarperVoyager

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Rating: - "Skin illustrations, the sign of an artist"
"Eighteen illustrations, eighteen tales." "The illustrations came to life..."

A man is encountered who has skin Illustrations all over his body. Each illustration represents a tale from the future. The illustrations come to life and tell a tale of doom or impending doom. In this way ray Bradbury can tell related but different tales in this book. Its Bradbury's writing style and dialogue that holds you as much as the storyline.

At first they are intriguing and fresh. Later ... Read More

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Rating: - Sci-Fi Fantasy - The Illustrated Man
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A Collection of weird and wonderful Tales... Tales that were tattooed on to the body of a man by a witch. At night the tales moved, glowed and became vibrant with stars, suns and planets, each one telling another fragment of the future.

But there was one place where the story was not clear... where the colours and patterns blurred and moved in no particular pattern. And that story was the most terrifying of all...

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Rating: - Sixteen dark tales
I originally came across this book when I had to read some of the short stories in it for school years ago I liked it then and have always wanted to go back and finish the other stories but never had the chance until recently. Each of the sixteen short stories are brought together by the preface that sets each story as a scene depicted on the body of the Illustrated Man as witnessed by a traveller he meets on the way. Each tale is usually quite dark with lots of death, betrayal and warnings about censorship ... Read More

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Rating: - A book to hand down through the family - amazing!
Ray Bradbury was an amazing and futuristic writer, and he used the 'illustrated man' concept as an ingenious way of linking 18 short stories. A man is on a walking holiday in Wisconsin, it's a hot day and he meets a guy who has his clothing buttoned up tight as if it is winter, and he is sweating, of course. They camp down for the night, and the guy takes off his thick shirt. His body is covered in illustrations, (not tattoos), and they are beautiful, they move, and have tiny voices. He tells how he met an old ... Read More

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Rating: - Ray Bradbury's timeless classic
This is one of the best collections of Ray Bradbury short stories to be found. The Illustrated Man of the title is a fairground worker who is covered in tattoos, or 'illustrations'. While he sleeps the illustrations move and each one tells a different story to anyone who may see them. Although the descriptions of rockets and technology may seem a little dated now, these are still excellent stories for any true fan of sci-fi. Particularly good are 'The Veldt' a story of two children and their virtual reality nursery ... Read More

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