The Illustrated Man

Name: The Illustrated Man
Rating: 4.610294342041016 (136 reviews)

Ray Bradbury

Apr 2013 · Harper Collins

4.6

136 reviews

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You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.

A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury— eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, 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. Provocative and powerful, Ray Bradbury’s 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.

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4.6

136 reviews

Adam Glass

24 September 2024

Bradbury is a genius and when I have more time I will give a more in depth review of each specific book, but if I rated it 5 stars, there's a reason! Return soon for a more fulsome review. Thanks for your patience. -ATG

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20 August 2014

Prepare for your world view to be flipped on its side and enjoy the strange mix of fantasy and surreal with future and starkly realistic descriptions. Rather mind bending.

3 people found this review helpful

Chasman Rose

25 November 2019

This book was absolutely filled with mind-blowing short stories that will definitely change your perspective! I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to ask "What if". I will definitely read it again.

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About the author

In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. An Emmy Award winner for his teleplay The Halloween Tree and an Academy Award nominee, he was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

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