In "The Other Foot", a future Mars is colonized entirely by black people. The last survivor laments that there is no way he can perform a good act to make up for his "terrible and empty life". In "Kaleidoscope", the doomed crew of a crippled space ship reflects on their lives as they float to their deaths. The stories have no common thread, but they are all dark and many explore how man's psyche deals with his place in the universe.
Some of the stories take place on Mars - the site of Bradbury's most famous short story collection - but do not necessarily share continuity with his "Martian Chronicles" stories. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury is a collection of the stories told by the pictures on the circus refugee's body - 18 dark tales of science fiction and horror.īradbury frames the collection by narrating an encounter with the Illustrated Man along a deserted road and relaying the stories acted out by the animated tattoos.
And they always predicted a bleak future. In the daytime, they were beautiful works of art but at night, they came to life and told stories that predicted the future. The Illustrated Man despised the tattoos that covered his body.
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