Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television...

William F. Nolan knew the late great Ray Bradbury for more than sixty years, and during that entire span he has written perspicaciously about his mentor and friend, beginning with The Ray Bradbury Review (1952) and continuing to the present day. This volume, published on the occasion of Nolan's 85th birthday, is a celebration of his lifelong devotion to the master of fantasy and science fiction. Included are twenty pioneering articles on Bradbury, along with a sheaf of stories influenced by such works as The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles, including the...

Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future. The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein They Twinkled like Jewels by Philip Jose Farmer Lingua Franca by Carole McDonnell Dawn of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum Don t Jump by Jamie Wild Youth by Isaac Asimov Digger Don't Take No Requests by John Teehan Lighter than You Think by Nelson Bond Garden of Souls by M. Turville Heitz The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick Starwisps by Edward J. McFadden III Gorgono and Slith by Ray Bradbury I Was There When They Made the Video by Cynthia Ward The Perfect Host by Theodore Sturgeon That...