6/30/2023 0 Comments Zero hour the illustrated manThe otherwise unconnected stories are brought together through a framing device, a fantasy tale featuring the Illustrated Man of the title. Religion is a major theme of both "The Man" and "The Fire Balloons". Some of the stories contain elements of social commentary. The tone of "The Concrete Mixer" is considerably more comedic than that of the rest of the tales in the anthology. Some of them fall with the horror genre too, whereas others are considerably lighter in tone. Some of them also have elements of fantasy. All of the stories fall within the science fiction genre. Apart from "The Other Foot", all of the stories had previously been published elsewhere, some of them being revised by Bradbury for inclusion in The Illustrated Man. The stories are: "The Veldt", "Kaleidoscope", "The Other Foot", "The Highway", "The Man", "The Long Rain", "The Rocket Man", "The Fire Balloons", "The Last Night of the World", "The Exiles", "No Particular Night or Morning", "The Fox and the Forest", "The Visitor", "The Concrete Mixer", "Marionettes, Inc.", "The City", "Zero Hour" and "The Rocket". The Illustrated Man is an anthology of eighteen short stories by the American author Ray Bradbury that was first published in 1951. Front cover of a first edition of The Illustrated Man.
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