Editorial Reviews From the Publisher FARENHEIT 451 by Ray BradburyThere are some books that no matter how long ago you've read them, detailsfrom the story stick in your mind. Farenheit 451 was like that for me. Iwas 15 when I first checked it out from the high school library. I hadn'treally gotten very far into the book when a cute guy noticed I was carryingit around school."Good book," he commented."Yeah, I'm still reading it," I answered. Wow, I thought, approval from anolder guy. That gave me the incentive to finish what turned out to be oneof the most important sf novels ever written.It's been more than 20 years since I've spoken to but I'll always feelgrateful to him whenever I hear about bookburnings. His tiny bit ofencouragement introduced me to one of the genre's finest writers.--Amy Stout, Consulting Editor From the Inside Flap Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do.... About the Author Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors. Read more