Ray Bradbury

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...

Includes a novel and two short stories. Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are...

A couple sees a spaceship falling in the desert, but no one believes them.

In a terrifying care-free future, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman, and begins to rebel against society.

Atomic tests cause common ants to mutate in giant monsters; after an atomic bomb test in the Arctic, a giant dinosaur awakes and finds its way to Manhattan; astronauts returning from a mission to Mars enter a time warp and find themselves on a post-apocalyptic Earth; when the British launch the first space vehicle along with a bomb, mechanical failures threaten the crew.