In a quarrel with another man, Hollis is completely shaken in the way he thinks, along with the reader. Hollis, the narrator and also hurling crew member, reflects on his life while he waits to burn up entering Earth’s atmosphere. The second story straight from Bradbury’s cranium tells of the crew flying through space after their ship had been hit by an asteroid. When they decide to get away from the house on a vacation, the kids get extremely upset and things go awry. When their parents journey into this room to see what their kids are up to, they are surprised and curious at the same time. Their parents have no idea what they do in their long trips there.

The children in this family become relatively obsessed with this room and spend hours there, much like such things in our society today that wrap and obsess kids. The main attraction in the house is a veldt, a sort of live and realistic movie theater that plays what you want it to. Their house has all the goodies that a future house should have it basically does everything for you. The first story, “The Veldt”, has to do with a family living in future luxury. The science fiction stories that Ray Bradbury illustrates are full of wonder, suspense, and concealed incendiary morals. The book tells the random and interesting tales from the perspective of a stranger. Each tattoo story has a secret just like the Illustrated Man himself. The Illustrated Man’s tattoos tell stories of multiple genres that span the science fiction theme. This is true of the Illustrated Man, one of the science fiction characters created by Ray Bradbury in his classic 1951 book by the same name. What if your body was covered with tattoos of every movie you’ve ever seen in your life?

The illustrated man book review