Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Please join us for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Book descriptions (take care, may contain spoilers): Goodreads; Wikipedia.

Published in 1953, in this dystopian novel, Guy Montag is a fireman whose job is to burn books, all of which have been outlawed. Upon meeting a new neighbour, Clarisse, Montag becomes disillusioned with his role in censoring knowledge and sees the emptiness of his life and leading to his rebellion.

Bradbury later described how the book was inspired by book burnings in Nazi Germany, and McCarthyism in the US throughout the 1940s.

Bradbury was an American author born in 1920 in Illinois, a son of a Swedish immigrant and an American father of English ancestry. He grew up later in Tucson, Arizona, then Los Angeles from the age of 14. An avid reader, Bradbury began writing stories aged 12 influenced by Jules Verne and HG Wells, and later joined a local science fiction society. He was rejected from enrolling in military service in World War II because of his eyesight, and started publishing science fiction instead from age 18. Bradbury wrote 451 from UCLA's Powell Library, hiring the typewriter at ten cents an hour, costing him $9.80 in sum. Bradbury suffered a stroke in 199*, and died in 2012 from a long illness.

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