
"The Fox and the Forest" was adapted by Terry Nation for the 1965 BBC television series Out of the Unknown. "The Veldt", "The Concrete Mixer", "The Long Rain", "Zero Hour", and "Marionettes Inc." were adapted for The Ray Bradbury Theater television series. Some of the stories, including "The Veldt", "The Fox and the Forest" (as "To the Future"), "Marionettes, Inc.", and "Zero Hour" were also dramatized for the 1955–1957 radio series X Minus One. It presents adaptations of the stories "The Veldt", "The Long Rain" and "The Last Night of the World". The book was made into the 1969 film, The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated, and each tells a different tale.Īll but one of the stories had been published previously elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book's publication.

The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame story of "The Illustrated Man", a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. However, at night, the pictures come to life and tell stories about the future. She worked on him for a whole night, covering his body with beautiful pictures.

The Illustrated Man is a carnival worker who noticed a sign outside an old ladys house offering exquisite tattoos. A recurring theme throughout the stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The Illustrated Manappears in Prologue: The Illustrated Man and Epilogue.

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