Penguin Random House, Belletristik, Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country & Other Stories (LOA #360) (E...

In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America&rsquo s most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. Here are two of Bradbury&rsquo s most beloved collections, along with twenty-seven other stories, that together represent the best of Bradbury&rsquo s stories of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The Illustrated Man&mdash the more Earthbound science fiction companion to Bradbury&rsquo s classic collection The Martian Chronicles&mdash contains eighteen short stories bound together by the unifying metaphor of a strangely tattooed outcast. The stories explore both the dehumanizing possibilities of space-age technology&mdash in &ldquo The Veldt&rdquo and &ldquo The Rocket Man&rdquo --and the pessimistic, dark side of humanity, as in &ldquo The Visitor.&rdquo The October Country collects nineteen short stories: macabre carnival tales, speculative horror, and strange fantasy. &ldquo Uncle Einar&rdquo and &ldquo Homecoming&rdquo concern the monstrous and immortal Elliott family. In &ldquo The Next in Line,&rdquo a woman becomes convinced that she&rsquo ll never leave the small, Mexican town she&rsquo s traveled to on vacation. And in &ldquo Touched with Fire,&rdquo two old men have learned to predict future murders. This edition restores the original artwork by Joe Mugnaini. Rounding out the volume are twenty-seven other short stories from the first half of Bradbury&rsquo s career selected by Bradbury scholar Joanthan R, Eller, including &ldquo Frost and Fire,&rdquo in which humans on another planet live only eight days &ldquo The Pedestrian,&rdquo about the only man in the world who does not watch television, and &ldquo I Sing the Body Electric!,&rdquo in which a family purchases a robotic grandmother. Also includes such hard to find stories as &ldquo R is for Rocket,&rdquo &ldquo Asleep in Armageddon,&rdquo and &ldquo The Lost City of Mars.&rdquo .