These are golden days for science fiction and fantasy, especially when it comes to the small screen. There’s less than a month left until HBO’s Game of Thrones graces your TV screen once again, continuing its quest to destroy your feelings. And last month, Neil Gaiman’s long-gestating TV adaptation of American Gods got a renewed lease […]
“Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, likeants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do . . . ”
Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteeninterconnected stories—visions of the future tattooed onto the body of anenigmatic traveler—in The Illustrated Man, one of the essential classicsof speculative fiction from the author of The Martian Chronicles, DandelionWine, and The October Country.
“Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, likeants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do . . . ”
Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteeninterconnected stories—visions of the future tattooed onto the body of anenigmatic traveler—in The Illustrated Man, one of the essential classicsof speculative fiction from the author of The Martian Chronicles, DandelionWine, and The October Country.
The Illustrated Man
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ISBN-13: | 9780062079978 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 10/11/2011 |
Edition description: | Reissue |
Pages: | 288 |
Sales rank: | 7,330 |
Product dimensions: | 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.64(d) |
Lexile: | 680L (what's this?) |
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