5th printing of 1955 edition:- Contents: Prologue: The Illustrated Man / The Veldt / Kaleidoscope / The Other Foot / The Highway / The Man / The Long Rain / The Rocket Man / The Fire Balloons / The Last Night Of The World / The Exiles / No Particular Night Or Morning / The Fox And The Forest / The Visitor / The Concrete Mixer / Marionettes, Inc / The City / Zero Hour / The Rocket / Epilogue:- Synopsis: These are stories of other worlds: of the rain-gutted forests of Venus and the deep canals of Mars Of the empty blackness of space and of planets that have no name. © 1951: A collection of 19 short stories by Ray Bradbury. Cover Art: Bruce Pennington (illustrator). Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Stanley Wiater From the Publisher:īook Description Paperback: 7' x 4½'.

Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. Or 'Zero Hour,' in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally-our own children. Or 'Kaleidoscope,' a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere-without the benefit of a spaceship. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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