num_pages: 294
description: A classic collection of stories -- all told on the skin of a man -- from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art! Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He's tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered gems. They quiver and come to life. Tiny pink hands gesture, tiny mouths flicker as the figures enact their stories -- voices rise, small and muted, predicting the future. Here are sixteen tales: sixteen illustrations! the seventeenth is your own future told on the skin of the Illustrated Man.
language: English
title: The Illustrated Man
titlecomplete: The Illustrated Man
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 95357
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: International Fantasy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Analog Award
category: All-Time Best Book, awardedAt: -568051200000
name: awards	International Fantasy Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Flamingo