Name: The illustrated man
ISBN: 0783884664

Ray Bradbury

The illustrated man

Caitlin

When life is over it is like a flicker of bright film, an instant on the screen, all of its prejudices and passions condensed and illumined for an instant on space, and before you could cry out, "There was a happy day, there a bad one, there an evil face, there a good one," the film burned to a cinder, the screen went dark. 

The Illustrated Man

quite possibly the most fascinating and diverse collection of short stories i've ever read. it's been a few years since i've finished reading this and i'm merely recollecting my thoughts just now, but this book genuinely sparked my interest in reading more works on speculative/science fiction.

Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.

Monicap

Some good stories, some not-so-good stories, lots of great writing.

Ray Bradbury's remarkable collection of stories - all told on the skin of a man. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art... Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories - voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations... the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man.

Sarah Sammis

Lara Engle

This wasn't what I expected. With the backdrop of a magically tattooed man, I thought these stories would be more similar to Something Wicked This Way Comes. Instead, they seem like they belong in The Martian Chronicles. They're still wonderful, though, full of that fantastic Bradbury imagery and imagination. I particularly like the way he reframes the possibilities and ideas of interaction between peoples from different worlds. I won't spoil anything, but I find it amazing how his vision of humanity can be so hopeful and so pessimistic at the same time. Reading Bradbury always makes me hope we can be better than we often show ourselves to be.

Adam Scharf

Francisco Abelenda

El Hombre Ilustrado

algunos cuentos me parecieron muy buenos y otros, bastante meh. Lo bueno es que se lee bastante rápido.

benja

Christine Bruce

Easily my favorite collection of short stories ever. I can't believe it's taken me so long to read Bradbury but I'm glad this was my first exposure to him.

georgia greenway

Alexia

Bradbury did it again! One of the best short story collections I’ve ever read. 
Favorites:
- The Rocket Man
- The City
- The Exiles
- Prologue and epilogue, which tell he story of the Illustrated Man.
- The Man
- No Particular Night or Morning

Sabrina D. 

A lovely book of wonder, that appealed to all of my childhood curiosities about space. Easy, fun read .

The Illustrated Man (Flamingo Modern Classics)

André Nóbrega

Jessica Vandygriff 

 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 ILLUSTRATED MAN

Stephan Happe

A classic collection of stories – all told on the skin of a man – from the author of Fahrenheit 451.

The illustrated man

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