Each illustration on a wandering man comes to life to bring you a story of the future, which ultimately bring fear and despair. It seems that mankind really hasn’t learned a thing. Destruction, greed, discrimination… some things never change.
There is one patch of clear skin on the man that will tell you your own future if you care to stare at it long enough……
A wonderful collection of bizarre futuristic stories set on Mars and Earth
Do you think these stories are really outdated, or is there still some worth in them to invoke fear today, or just leave you thinking retrospectively?
ReplyDeleteI really like Ray Bradbury and his Something Wicked this Way Comes is one of my favourite novels, but some of his other work as you say above is outdated. The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles are both better on screen than the original works. I think they would have been better enjoyed when read in the 1950s as there was a lot of pulp sci fi around, the hysteria surrounding the Atomic Bomb and the commencement of the space race. I was very disappointed with the Martian Chronicles but there were a couple of really good stand alone stories within the collection.
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