Editing The Illustrated Man (section)

== Other versions ==
The British edition, first published in 1952 by [[Rupert Hart-Davis|Hart-Davis]] omits "The Rocket Man", "The Fire Balloons", "The Exiles" and "The Concrete Mixer", and adds "Usher II" from ''The Martian Chronicles'' and "The Playground".

Editions published by [[Avon Books]] in 1997 and [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow]] in 2001 omit "The Fire Balloons" and add "The Illustrated Man" to the end of the book.

;"Usher II": Literary expert William Stendahl has retreated to Mars to escape the book-burning dictates of the Moral Climate Monitors. On Mars he has built his image of the perfect haunted mansion, replicating the building from [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s short story "[[The Fall of the House of Usher]]", complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks and the extermination of all life in the surrounding area. When the Moral Climate Monitors come to visit, each of them is killed in a manner reminiscent of a different Poe story, culminating in the [[immurement]] of the lead inspector. When all of Stendahl's persecutors are dead, the house sinks into the lake.

;"The Playground": When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son Jim Underhill begins playing in a local playground, Charles becomes deeply disturbed when he sees Tom Marshall, a bully from his youth.

;"The Illustrated Man": William Philippus Phelps, an overweight carnival worker is given a second chance as a Tattooed Man, and visits a strange woman who applies [[tattoo]]s over his entire body. She covers two special areas, claiming they will show the future. The first is an illustration of the man strangling his wife Lisabeth Phelps. Shortly after this comes to pass, the carnival workers run William down, beat him, and look at the second area. It shows an illustration of the beating in which they are engaged.