Ray Bradbury

In the summer of 1928, Jan Huff, a 12-year-old who seemed able to do anything, was the only god Douglas Spaulding knew of.

"The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful:...

Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.

Presents two novellas, including "Somewhere a Band Is Playing," in which a young writer discovers that all is not as it seems in a nostalgic community, and "Leviathan '99," in which Ishmael Hunnicut Jones prepares for a first interstellar hunt.

A sci-fi film writer discovers a body frozen in time and poised to climb from the city of the dead to the city of light.

Novel, based on Bradbury's experience as a young writer signed to write a screenplay based on Melville's novel Moby Dick.

Twenty-one stories with general themes by a leading science fiction writer. In one story, a dead man thinks he is still alive, another story features a killer garbage disposal unit, and a third is on the downside of immortality.

While peering at the stars one cool night in the desert, young Ahmed falls off his camel and becomes separated from his father's caravan. Certain he will die before he has even had an opportunity to live, Ahmed is reduced to tears. The sound of Ahmed's crying, and the wetness of the tears themselves, awaken a sleeping giant ? a slumbering god that rises from the desert sand and soars into the night's sky. The newly resurrected and jubilant god's name...

A retrospective collection of one hundred short stories features pieces written after 1943 and includes both popular favorites and lesser-known works of distinction.