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AlbakiReads Editorial Eighteen future visions framed by an enigmatic traveler
Eighteen future visions framed by an enigmatic traveler
Ray Bradbury’s collection gathers eighteen interconnected stories presented as visions tattooed on an enigmatic traveler’s body. Across these episodes, imagined futures become a way to examine human fear, aspiration, instinct, and the persistence of everyday rituals. The material ranges from vengeful cities and technology’s unsettling consequences to improvised rockets and far-reaching space travel, giving the book a broad speculative canvas while keeping human nature at its center. The tattooed-body framing links distinct tales into a single, recurring encounter with possible worlds.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers interested in classic twentieth-century speculative fiction
- Fans of linked story collections and framing devices
- Those drawn to science-fictional settings that explore human nature
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Human natureFutures and technologyFear and aspirationSpace travelInterconnected stories
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Book Overview In this classic of twentieth-century literature, now with a strikingly beautiful new cover design, Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanni...
In this classic of twentieth-century literature, now with a strikingly beautiful new cover design, Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning from the depths of humankind's fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteen interconnected stories--visions of the future tattooed onto the body of an enigmatic traveler.
Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.
Provocative and powerful, 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.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 288 | Language: English | Publisher: WILLIAM MORROW | ISBN: 0063445352
FormatPaperback
Pages288
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0063445352
EAN9780063445352
PublisherWILLIAM MORROW
Publication Date2025-06-17
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.48 Pounds
Length7.9 Inches
Width5.2 Inches
Height0.8 Inches
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