As an avid reader of dystopian literature, I enjoyed the genre, but with predictable characters and an overwhelmingly overt message, “Fahrenheit 451” was not complex enough to excite me.

including “Fahrenheit 451” and “The Martian Chronicles,” and who transformed the genre of flying saucers and little green men into literature exploring childhood terrors, colonialism and ...

(The author, who died in 2012, would’ve been 99.) Fahrenheit 451, like 1984, Brave New World, and other novels in the genre of dystopian science fiction, was strangely prescient. To better ...

HBO’s adaptation of “Fahrenheit 451” is a highlight in the current ... Bradbury’s novel is a classic of the genre, and as such is often held up alongside George Orwell’s “1984 ...

Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury, one of the world’s leading writers of the genre for more than 60 ... he was probably best known for Fahrenheit 451, about a dystopian future in which the ...

“Bradbury took the conventions of the science-fiction genre — time travel ... The people in the “Fahrenheit 451” society sport “seashells” and “thimble radios,” which bear a ...

From a practical perspective, it may be so (one of the things he turned down for “Fahrenheit” was “Bonnie and Clyde”); but from an artistic point of view, “Fahrenheit 451” is one of ...

American dystopian classic “Fahrenheit 451” by the late Ray Bradbury encapsulates the dark realities of a society without books, intellectual curiosity, or critical thinking. “Fahrenheit 451 ...

His stories began to appear in small genre pulps. Among the first was ... Bradbury’s follow-up bestseller, 1953’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was based on two earlier short stories and written ...

Ray Bradbury, author of classic books such as "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles ... Ray Bradbury was a modern master who helped bring the genre of science fiction writing into the ...