The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
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The Illustrated Man

Author: Ray Bradbury

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2009

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the grand master's premier accomplishments. Collected here are eighteen tales, startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on July 28, 2021

The Illustrated Man is written in the iridescent language of those kaleidoscopic tattoos it tells us about… The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank and two dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls beg......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on May 05, 2020

Ray Bradbury was an absolute master storyteller whose writing was creative and full of moments of pure bitter irony: he was an imaginative genius, nothing more nothing less. Bradbury picks the bones of society clean; he gnaws at them until he exposes the reality of the marrow beneath. Each story in......more

Goodreads review by Baba on July 04, 2021

Genius!: 16 short sci-fi, horror and/or fantasy stories, linked by the concept that each story is represented by the animated tattoos on the Illustrated Man's body. All 16 tales are very very good, I kid you not! 8.5 out of 12.......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on December 20, 2019

Reading Bradbury a second and third time is like exploring a natural wonder, finding more and more details and interconnections and wondering more and more about how something like this can be both created and function so well. The amazing thing is that, while recalling the short stories after getti......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle on October 19, 2020

When the fuzzy bootie slippers and knit shawls come out, so do the Ray Bradbury books... As someone who could have made a living as a tattooed lady in a sideshow a hundred years ago, I am completely enamored of this short story collection's structure: one tale for each drawing on the titular Illustra......more

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