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Any discussion about the late, great #RayBradbury and what his greatest work was, will have #TheIllustratedMan in the conversation.
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Free #OnlineEvent from #LibraryOfAmerica (July 19): The Enduring Genius of #RayBradbury
In #TheMartianChronicles, #TheIllustratedMan, #Fahrenheit451, and other visionary works melding #ScienceFiction, #horror, #fantasy, and high #literature, Ray Bradbury electrified readers and inspired generations of genre-bending younger writers. Acclaimed authors #ConnieWillis and #KellyLink join LOA Bradbury editor #JonathanREller and #SF expert #GaryKWolfe for a conversation about this American original’s towering legacy.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-enduring-genius-of-ray-bradbury-registration-667627591097
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#Tattoos: The Next Day
For the work on her virtual travel blog, Lucy was well-equipped for excursions like that. She had two cameras constantly taking video of her and the scene. Also, she took additional hand shots and hi-res stills to be able to go into details. But as she looked at her media library the next day, nothing was in there. ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/14-the-next-day?c=mst
This ends the story about my tattoos......
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#Tattoos: She meets the Old Owl
The tree and the area were constantly changing. Lucy particularly noticed that when she stepped outside the raven's tree house. It was dark. The tree was lit by some Japanese lanterns and thousands of small lights that presumably came from all those sleeping semi-cyborg inhabitants - yet another iconic photo she couldn't take. ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/13-owl?c=mst
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#Tattoos: Tree House
"A warm welcome, Lucy", started the raven. The bird which was quite large even for a raven looked into a gigantic book clad in leather with golden applications. The front emblem showed a drawing of an insect, a cicada. ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/12-tree-house?c=mst
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#Tattoos: The Weather is Changing
Lucy didn't dare to move. She was amazed by the art around her and by the caracal, the most beautiful creature she had ever seen in the digital world. But she also was paralyzed and afraid. Would it attack her? Was this some shooter game where she came without a weapon? ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/11-weather-change?c=mst
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The tree was not hard to climb. Its bark texture was rough and she found grip very easily. Still, it took a while and a short moment of vertigo until Lucy reached the first branches of the crown that spanned above her like a giant neo-gothic dome. When she found firm ground on a stable fork, she took a moment of rest and looked around with amazement. ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #TreeofLife, #Caracal, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/10-awakening?c=mst
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The Illustrated Man
Published in 1951, The Illustrated Man is a book of dark and fantastic short stories by science fiction great, Ray Bradbury. Each story is tied together through the plot device of the illustrated man's tattoos, each one coming to life and telling a different story if you gaze upon them long enough. Don't look away. You might even glimpse your own demise.
"What seems to be the trouble?" I asked.
For answer, he unbuttoned his tight collar, slowly. With his eyes shut, he put a slow hand to the task of unbuttoning his shirt all the way down. He slipped his fingers in to feel his chest. "Funny," he said, eyes still shut. 'You can't feel them but they're there. I always hope that someday I'll look and they'll be gone. I walk in the sun for hours on the hottest days, baking, and hope that my sweat'll wash them off, the sun'll cook them off, but at sundown they're still there." He turned his head slightly toward me and exposed his chest. "Are they still there now?"
After a long while I exhaled. "Yes," I said. "They're still there."
The Illustrations.
"Another reason I keep my collar buttoned up," he said, opening his eyes, "is the children. They follow me along country roads. Everyone wants to see the pictures, and yet nobody wants to see them."
He took his shirt off and wadded it in his hands. He was covered with Illustrations from the blue tattooed ring about his neck to his belt line.
"It keeps right on going," he said, guessing my thought. "All of me is Illustrated. Look." He opened his hand. On his palm was a rose, freshly cut, with drops of crystal wake among the soft pink petals. I put my hand out to touch it, but it was only an Illustration.
As for the rest of him, I cannot say how I sat and stared, for he was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body. When his flesh twitched, the tiny mouths flickered, the tiny green-and-gold eyes winked, the tiny pink hands gestured. There were yellow meadows and blue rivers and mountains and stars and suns and planets spread in a Milky Way across his chest. The people themselves were in twenty or more odd groups upon his arms, shoulders, back, sides, and wrists, as well as on the flat of his stomach. You found them in forests of hair, lurking among a constellation of freckles, or peering from armpit caverns, diamond eyes aglitter. Each seemed intent upon his own activity, each was a separate gallery portrait.
"Why, they're beautiful!" I said.
How can I explain about his Illustrations? If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with all his sulphurous color, elongation, and anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man's body for his art. The colors burned in three dimensions. They were windows looking in upon fiery reality. Here, gathered on one wall, were all the finest scenes in the universe the man was a walking treasure gallery. This wasn't the work of a cheap carnival tattoo man with three colors and whisky on his breath. This was the accomplishment of a living genius vibrant, clear, and beautiful.
"Oh, yes," said the Illustrated Man. "I'm so proud of my Illustrations that I'd like to burn them off. I've tried sandpaper, acid, a knife . . ."
The sun was setting. The moon was already up in the East.
"For, you see," said the Illustrated Man, "these Illustrations predict the future."
Image by science fiction illustrator, Dean Ellis: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/ellis_dean
Image from: http://wonderful-strange.tumblr.com/post/72563135408/boomerstarkiller67-the-
#TheIllustratedMan #RayBradbury #DeanEllis #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionArt
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#Tattoos: Climbing the Tree of Life
After entering the shed, Lucy stood on the same grass plain. But here, she saw a different sky, that looked much more real than the usual Mesh projections. Somewhere in the distance, she saw the majestic tree rising in the middle of the green sea of grass. ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/09-climbing?c=mst
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#Tattoos: The Area
It was a four-week research challenge for Lucy to find out the coordinates. She had to go from forum over chat groups to bulletin boards and pages in a style long forgotten. That part was an adventure on its own. ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/08-the-area?c=mst
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#Tattoos: Lucy
I can't wait to dive into the story of my left arm now. It's almost finished and its theme is predestined for a mashup with another storyline, "The Mesh". So let's dive in and meet Lucy. ...
#SciFi, #Cyberspace, #Mesh, #Tattoos, #TheIllustratedMan, #RayBradbury
Full Post: https://octahedron.world/storylines/tattoos/07-lucy?c=mst