The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury - Harper Perennial Modern Classics | Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel | Perfect for Book Clubs & Sci-Fi Enthusiasts

"The Illustrated Man" is one book that I have been wanting to read for quite awhile. If you've ever heard anyone talk about Ray Bradbury's books like their "amazing", don't judge it, until you have read his stuff. The guy IS "amazing"! The fact that all these stories were written before 1952 is really "amazing"!Ray Bradbury's obession with space, astronauts, Mars, peoples overall greed, laziness & reliance on computers/technology in the future were rampant throughout all the stories, but he makes it work well, as usual.Personally I'm not a big fan of science fiction or space stories, but these stories draw in you easily.The book has 18 individual stories, the prologue, the very last story in the book, which is titled "The Illustrated Man" and the epilogue are only three times the (illustrated man) is mentioned.The stories are all individuals, they don't run together to make one final story or anything.A few of the stories are so, so, but there were several that after reading them, I was left thinking, WOW!, they are:KaleidoscopeThe Other Foot (5 star quality)The Man (5 star quality)The Long RainThe Fox and the ForestMarionettes, Inc.The City (5 star quality)Zero HourI really don't know how Ray Bradbury slept peacefully with all these stories and all the other stuff he wrote swirling around in his mind.The only other Bradbury book I have read is "Fahrenheit 451", which was also really thought provoking and good.Looking forward to reading more of Ray Bradbury's novels when I get the chance......