The Illustrated Man (collection)

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 short story collection of eighteen short stories by Ray Bradbury.

The stories are connected through the tale of a former member of a circus whose body is full of illustrations who meets a wanderer on a street who is shown him the illustrations tatooed on his body.

Short Stories
"The Veldt" - The Hadley parents become worried as their two children use their virtual reality-like "nursery" for their own desires.

"Kaleidoscope" - As their ship is destroyed, astronauts recount their lives and let out their most deep urges.

"The Other Foot" - After leaving Earth for Mars many years before, a community of blacks must deal with a white man from a destroyed Earth.

"The Highway" - A group of obscure Mexican farmers meet a group of tourists who try to understand the words "the world".

"The Man" - A group of space-travelers land on an unknown planet and are meet with the strange case of a mysterious man.

"The Long Rain" - A group of humans stuck on Venus must find the evasive and elusive Sun Domes.

"The Rocket Man" - A retired Rocket Man visits his son and wife for numerous periods of time - or is he?

"The Fire Balloons" - Christian missionaries on a colonized Mars must convert strange, blue-colored Martians to their religion.

"The Last Night of the World" - The world ends.

"The Exiles" - The last memories of burned Earth authors must battle against humans invading their new home planet - Mars.

"No Particular Night or Morning" - A series of experiences on a space ship drive a man insane.

"The Fox and the Forest" - A couple go to the past to escape a terrible future.

"The Visitor" - On a sanitarium planet named Mars, a diseased man meets a strange