Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

Udgivet af Simon & Schuster 1905

Ray Bradbury
Amerikansk forfatter. Denne mand er en af de forfatter I USA som er mest anerkendt for sine noveller, simpelthen fordi han ikke har skrevet særlig mange romaner i sin lange karriere. Blandt de mest kendte af hans bøger er "The Martian Chronicles", en samling historier om Mars og den civilization der er eller var på der. Bradbury's historier er næsten altid historier som har en eller anden bizar ingrediens I en normal verden. "Fahrenheit 451", om et dystopisk samfund blev filmatiseret af den franske instruktør Francios Trauffaut. Bradbury skrev også selv manus til filmatiseringen af Melvilles "Moby Dick. Blandt hans seneste bøger kan nævnes "From the Dust Returned" og "Let's All Kill Constance." Ray Bradbury døde 91 år gammel d. 5 juni 2012.