The Illustrated Man (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cautionary
- Time of Work: The 1950s, with flashforwards and flashbacks
- Setting: Various
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Folkloric or magical people, Witches or witchcraft, Circuses or carnivals, Tattoos
- Locales: United States, Space, Earth
The Plot
This book was published following serial publication of its component stories in a variety of sources. The thread connecting the stories is the narrators tale of meeting a tattooed man while on a walking tour of Wisconsin in the 1950s. The tattoos move and change at night, each telling a different story predicting the future. The narrator befriends the illustrated man and watches the tattoos become the eighteen tales collected in this volume.
Ray Bradbury questions the need for technology in many of the stories. George Hadley buys a Happylife Home (the ultimate...
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