Fahrenheit 451

“The best science fiction novel ever written. When I first read it, the world it created gave me nightmares.” -Margaret Atwood

“It is such a work that whatever I say about it would be inadequate.” -Neil Gaiman

Hugo Award for Best Novel
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

Ray Bradbury is one of the masters of not only science fiction but also fantasy and horror in the twentieth century. Perhaps the first writer to prove that science fiction can also be “good literature.” Fahrenheit 451, which became a classic the moment it was published and is one of the four fundamental books of dystopian literature, is a twentieth-century masterpiece.

Guy Montag was a firefighter. In this world where television ruled, books were about to disappear because firefighters were setting fires instead of putting out fires. Montag’s job was to burn the most dangerous of all illegals: books.

Montag had never questioned his job for a single day and lived with his wife Mildred, who spent all day in rooms filled with television. However, his whole life changed when he met his new neighbor Clarisse. Montag, who began to understand the value of books, would now question everything he knew.

What was inside these books that people were willing to sacrifice their lives for? After realizing the truth, could we live in this dark society anymore? If there were only one book left in the world,

Fahrenheit 451 would be that book.

“We have everything we need to be happy, but we are not happy. Something is missing. I looked around. The only thing I knew for sure was missing were the books I had burned over the last ten or twelve years.”