Walking along an asphalt road, I was on the final long of a two weeks' walking tour of Wisconsin. 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. The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury Prologue It was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man. 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. 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 grey dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father’s clothing. Captain Hart is annoyed that, after landing his spaceship on a new planet, no one greets him, expecting the local people to be excited. Here are eighteen startling visions as keen as the tattooist’s needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The Illustrated Manis classic Ray Bradbury – a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. The Illustrated Man Hardcover -Great Science Fiction by Ray Bradbury -Book Club Edition 1951 -Good Vintage Condition (see photos, one blank page clipped.

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