The Illustrated Man

The parents burst into the nursery, but instead of their children, they see lions. The lions approach, closing in for the kill...
             The next story, Kaleidoscope, is an astronaut's worst nightmare. Their ship explodes, but not everyone is killed. Rather, they are each sent hurtling through space, each in a different direction and each helpless to change course or direction. Their only comfort: radio contact with one another as they drift endlessly into oblivion.
             The Other Foot gives a kind of twist on the racism of our nation's birth. Before the Third World War, several colonies of blacks were sent to Mars to start a new life. Several years have passed, the War come and gone, and now a solitary rocket from earth, piloted by a solitary white man, has landed to give new of home. Ma
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