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Review ‘Another indispensible classic’ The Times ‘Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction’s conformist hells’ Kingsley Amis ‘Bradbury’s is a very great and unusual talent’ Christopher Isherwood ‘Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe’ Guardian 'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator 'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else' Daily Telegraph ‘No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas – with dsicipline’ Sunday Telegraph About the Author Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are ‘Fahrenheit 451’, ‘The Illustrated Man’ and ‘The Martian Chronicles’.

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Voyager Classics – timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy.

A beautiful clothbound edition of the internationally acclaimed Fahrenheit 451 – a masterwork of twentieth-century literature.

The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilisation’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

Ray Bradbury

Born in Illinois, in 1920, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most prestigious authors of science fiction in the world. His works include such noteworthy titles as The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine and The Machineries of Joy. Fahrenheit 451, his most celebrated work, continues to be one of the bestselling science fiction novels over fifty years after its first publication.

Bradbury’s diverse imaginative talents led him to be appointed as Idea Consultant for the United States Pavilion in 1963 and throughout his life he was an enthusiastic playwright, working for many years at the Pandemonium Theatre Company in Los Angeles and later the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena.

Ray Bradbury died in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91.

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‘Another indispensible classic’ The Times

‘Fahrenheit 451 is the most skilfully drawn of all science fiction’s conformist hells’
Kingsley Amis

‘Bradbury’s is a very great and unusual talent’
Christopher Isherwood

‘Ray Bradbury has a powerful and mysterious imagination which would undoubtedly earn the respect of Edgar Allen Poe’ Guardian

'It is impossible not to admire the vigour of his prose, similes and metaphors constantly cascading from his imagination' Spectator

'As a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury has long been streets ahead of anyone else' Daily Telegraph

‘No other writer uses language with greater originality and zest. he seems to be a American Dylan Thomas – with dsicipline’ Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Ray Bradbury has published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are ‘Fahrenheit 451’, ‘The Illustrated Man’ and ‘The Martian Chronicles’.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0006546064
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Voyager GB (3 November 1993)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780006546061
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0006546061
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 1.6 x 19.7 cm

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In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.

Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."

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Anastasia

easy to follow, makes you think

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big fan of dystopian books, this has been a little lighter than some such as blindness or 1984 but still a very good read, still thought provoking and overall a really good read.

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Slow Start; Strong finish.

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The first stretch of the book feels very wordy, it spends along time on describing the world and getting across the message of the book. It isint until atleast midway or towards the end of the book where, for me atleast, the message and the story start to merge and it becomes quite enjoyable. Overall it's a good book with an interesting story and a meaningful message.

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Dated

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Very clever in its own way. But suffers from being very dated. Not what I was expecting.

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Ray Bradbury is a classic science fiction writer. The book of famous. I liked it

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Ray Bradbury is one of my favourite authors and this is one of his best books . Set in dystopian future where books are burned it describes the critical awakening of one of the book burners. Bradbury predicts huge flat screen TVs, earpods and the rewriting of history.

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'Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.'

I remember having the same unsettling feeling when turning the last page of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 3 many, many years ago.

The story behind the story (outlined in the 50th Anniversary Edition) is just as fascinating. After using goodness knows how many coins hiring typewriters at the UCLA library he had a book he couldn't sell. 'No one wanted to take a chance on a novel about past, present or future censorship.' Then along came a publisher 'minus cash but full of future visions' who bought the story to run in issues two, three and four of his yet to be published magazine. The publisher was Hugh Hefner.

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Honestly I was dissapointed with the story. It's a great concept but I thought it was poorly executed. Was a little hard for me to get into as the characters and world felt very detached. It's a great concept though, I just wish the rest of the story was given more time and attention.

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Napoleon Sinclair

AMAZING READ!!!

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I’m not even into this kind of genre of book, but this is a piece of art! Masterpiece! Really good read! It will open your eyes to our present, future, and past. Really good read, you can’t pass this up.

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Muy buen libro

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Un excelente libro e historia

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książka klejona, dość szybko złamał mi się grzbiet; sama treść nie zachwyca, ale nie jest też tragiczna

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