The Illustrated Man

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The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of interconnected science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury, framed by the eerie premise of a man whose living tattoos foretell the future.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf frame narrative
science fiction book
short story collection
author Ray Bradbury
containsWork Kaleidoscope
Marionettes, Inc.
No Particular Night or Morning
The City
The Exiles
The Fire Balloons
The Fox and the Forest
The Highway
The Last Night of the World
The Long Rain
The Man
The Other Foot
The Rocket
The Rocket Man
The Veldt
The Visitor
Zero Hour
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followedBy The Golden Apples of the Sun
frameCharacter The Illustrated Man self-linksurface differs
surface form: the Illustrated Man
genre science fiction
hasAdaptation The Illustrated Man (1969 film)
hasCoverArtist Guy Billout
influenced later science fiction anthologies
language English
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
mediaType print
narrativeDevice living tattoos that foretell the future
notableFor dark and eerie tone
interconnected short stories linked by a tattooed man
originalAudience adult readers
partOf Ray Bradbury
surface form: Ray Bradbury bibliography
precededBy The Martian Chronicles
publicationYear 1951
publisher Doubleday
setting various future and speculative locations
theme colonization of other planets
family relationships
free will and predestination
religion and spirituality
space travel
technology and its impact on humanity
war and apocalypse

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Ray Bradbury notableWork The Illustrated Man
Rod Steiger notableWork The Illustrated Man
The Illustrated Man frameCharacter The Illustrated Man self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: the Illustrated Man
Philip H. Lathrop notableWork The Illustrated Man