Having read many Ray Bradbury books, i feel like this one was a little underwhelming. Don´t get me worng, there were certainly good stories, but i think there is a limited amout of things you can say about space and this author is obsessed with it. Some of my favorite stories were: "Kaleidoscope", "The man", "The rocket man", "The last night of the world", "No particular night or morning", "The fox and the forest" and "Marionettes, Inc.". 

 

Some really good quotes from the book (spoilers):

"Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?" Bradbury, R. 1948: 33.

"And the sun was big and fiery and merciless, and it was always in the sky and you couldn´t get away from it." Bradbury, R. 1948: 111.

"The gap between doing and having done. What is done is dead and is not proof, for it is not an action. Only actions are important. And pieces of paper were remains of actions done and over and now unseen. The proof of doing was over and done. Nothing but memory remained, and I didn´t trust my memory." Bradbury, R. 1948: 167.

"The picture on his back showed the Illustrated Man himself, with his fingers about my neck, choking me to death. I didn´t wait for it to become clear and sharp and a definite picture" Bradbury, R. 1948: 280.