Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Srpski
Autor: Strani

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"That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury`s work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What`s even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as `The Veldt,` wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or `Kaleidoscope,` a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or `Zero Hour,` in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now."
"The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952.[1]

The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame story of `The Illustrated Man`, a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. The man`s tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated, and each tells a different tale.

All but one of the stories had been published previously elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book`s publication.

The book was made into the 1969 film, The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. It presents adaptations of the stories `The Veldt`, `The Long Rain` and `The Last Night of the World`.

Some of the stories, including `The Veldt`, `The Fox and the Forest` (as `To the Future`), `Marionettes, Inc.`, and `Zero Hour` were also dramatized for the 1955–1957 radio series X Minus One. `The Veldt`, `The Concrete Mixer`, `The Long Rain`, `Zero Hour`, and `Marionettes Inc.` were adapted for The Ray Bradbury Theater television series. `The Fox and the Forest` was adapted by Terry Nation for the 1965 BBC television series Out of the Unknown."