At the end of the story, only one astronaut, his sanity in question, remains to find a functional sun dome. Searching for another sun dome, the characters, one by one, are driven to madness and suicide by the unrelenting rhythm of the rain. The first sun dome they find has been destroyed by the native Venusians. The travelers make their way across the Venusian landscape to find a "sun dome", a shelter with a large artificial light source. Other members of the crew remain on the planet to learn from the contented citizens, and are rewarded by the discovery that "He" is still on the planet.Ī group of astronauts is stranded on Venus, where it rains continually and heavily. Another uses the spaceship to try to catch up to the mysterious traveller, but at each planet he finds that "He" has just left after spreading his message. One decides to spend his life rejoicing in the man's glory. Upon investigation, they discover that an enigmatic visitor came to them, whom the spacemen come to believe is Jesus. Space explorers find a planet where the population is in a state of bliss.
After the travellers leave, the husband wonders what they meant by "the world," before returning to his work as normal. They give assistance to some young travellers, who tell them that the nuclear war means the end of the world.
The black people take pity on the white travelers and accept them into their new society.Ī husband and wife living by a highway in rural Mexico live their simple, regimented lives while the highway fills with refugees of a nuclear war. When the rocket lands, the travelers tell them that the entire Earth has been destroyed by war, including all of the horrific mementos of racism (such as trees used for lynching black people), leaving few survivors. When they learn that a rocket is coming from Earth with white travellers, they institute a Jim Crow system of racial segregation in retaliation for how the whites once treated them.
Mars has been colonized solely by black people. As he falls through Earth's atmosphere and is incinerated, he appears as a shooting star to a child in Illinois. His final thought is a wish that his life would at least be worth something to someone else. The narrator bitterly reflects on his life and feels he has accomplished nothing worthwhile. The story describes the final thoughts and conversations of the crew members as they face their death. The crew of a space ship drift helplessly through space after their craft malfunctions. For the 1990 book by Harry Turtledove, see Kaleidoscope (short story collection). "Kaleidoscope (short story)" redirects here.
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"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. A recurring theme throughout the stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury.
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