Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 1953
Devastation Rating
censorship dystopia books America
Our Take
Fireman Montag burns books until he starts reading them. Bradbury's dystopia is not about government censorship but about self-censorship — a society that chose not to read long before the firemen arrived. The technology that replaces books in the parlor walls is social media before social media existed.
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