Now's your chance!
In case you somehow missed this science fiction classic, or want to read it again!
Announcing the August 27, 2018 meeting of the SF&F Literati 7:00 p.m.
Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble #2352, 2nd Floor, 11323 W. 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
Discussing
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Available from: Fine Booksellers, including Barnes & Noble
Here's a synopsis from the publisher, for the 60th Anniversary edition:
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 “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
ALSO! Important decisions to make!
This is also the meeting where they'll decided on the fall-winter book selecti.ons If you have ideas for future reading selections, please show up and be counted!
NOTE: ALL ARE WELCOME to the meeting, whether you’ve read the book or not.
IMAGE: Many thanks to Amazon for the 60th Anniversary book cover image.
In case you somehow missed this science fiction classic, or want to read it again!
Meeting Location: Barnes & Noble #2352, 2nd Floor, 11323 W. 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66214
Discussing
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Available from: Fine Booksellers, including Barnes & Noble
Here's a synopsis from the publisher, for the 60th Anniversary edition:
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 “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
ALSO! Important decisions to make!
This is also the meeting where they'll decided on the fall-winter book selecti.ons If you have ideas for future reading selections, please show up and be counted!
NOTE: ALL ARE WELCOME to the meeting, whether you’ve read the book or not.
IMAGE: Many thanks to Amazon for the 60th Anniversary book cover image.
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