That description covers not only the frame device, but the fact that the tattooed man was a former carnival member, and the theme of technology being dominant in the stories. All but one of the stories had been published previously elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book's publication. The 18 stories complete, the narrator had seen what there was to see (275). The narrator has been watching the tattoos move as the Illustrated Man sleeps. The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated and each tells a different tale. The Illustrated Man Epilogue Epilogue Summary The collection returns to the scene from the Prologue. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device 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. Director Jack Smight Writers Ray Bradbury Howard B. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler. The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. This sounds like Ray Bradbury's "The Illustrated Man".
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