Editing The Illustrated Man (section)

==Reception==
In ''[[The New York Times]]'' in February 1951, Villiers Gerson praised the book for its "three-dimensional people with whom it is easy to sympathize, to hate, and to admire".<ref>{{cite news|title=Realm of the Spacemen |work=[[The New York Times Book Review]] |date=February 4, 1951}}</ref>

In July 1951 Gerson praised ''The Illustrated Man'' in ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'' as "a book which demonstrates that its author is one of the most literate and spellbinding writers in science fiction today".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Book Reviews |magazine=[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Astounding Science Fiction]] |date=July 1951 |page=155}}</ref>

Contemporary reviewers [[Anthony Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas]] gave ''The Illustrated Man'' a mixed review in ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'' in August 1951, faulting the framing story as "markedly ineffective" and the story selection for being "less than wisely chosen". However, they found the better stories "provide a feast [from] the finest traditions in imaginative fiction"<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Recommended Reading |magazine=The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction|date=August 1951 |page=84}}</ref> and, writing for the same magazine in April 1952, named it among 1951's top books.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Recommended Reading |magazine=[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]] |date=April 1952 |page=96}}</ref>