The Illustrated Man

The tattoed man moves, and in the arcane designs scrawled upon his skin swirl tales beyond imagining -- tales of love and laughter, darkness and death, of mankind's glowing, golden past and dim, haunted future.

Here are 18 incomparable stories that blend magic and truth in a kaleidoscopic tapestry of wonder that "The New York Times" called "beautifully written...intensely real."