Twenty years later a white man came to visit and let them know that Earth was destroyed. The Other Foot People of color were shipped to Mars as Earth began a nuclear war.How did you use your time? Did you live or dream about living? Kaleidoscope A philosophical piece regarding looking back at your life and wondering what it was all for.

It spoils their children and kills the parents. What they do with it is gruesome! The Hadleys have allowed technology to take over their life.

The Veldt This is one of my favorites since it puts the kids in charge of their own world.

I will give you the name of each story, some best bits, and its synopsis. Each story also seems to hint at a moral of some kind. Most of the stories have to do with spaceships and intergalactic travel. Each tale is pretty short, so this book would be a good “before going to sleep” book. Each tattoo shows us the story that we have before us. Even though the boy is asked not to, he stares at the man’s tattoos all night as the tattooed man sleeps. Each tattoo tells a story, and if one looks at him long enough, he or she will become one of the tattooed stories. The tattoos are a curse placed upon him by a witch. He comes upon a young lad whom he befriends and explains that his tattoos tell the future.

A tattooed man wanders place to place in search of a job. I don’t even know why Bradbury went to what little trouble he did to include him at the beginning of what is essentially a collection of short stories. More than one person suggested this book because the “illustrated man” is heavily tattooed, yet the book has nothing to do with him. I am very glad I did not take the time to read this in graduate school when I was researching tattoos. The Grand Master Editions Bantam Books 1951 186 pages

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