Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that was originally published as a shorter novella in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Influence on popular culture

The title of Bradbury's book has become a well-known byword amongst those who oppose censorship, in much the way George Orwell's 1984 has (although not to the same extent). As such, it has been alluded to in dozens of later contexts, amongst them the ACLU's 1997 whitepaper Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning? and Michael Moore's 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11 (Bradbury objected to its allusion of his work http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/06/18/entertainment2219EDT0805.DTL).

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Censorship - George Orwell - 1984 - ACLU - Michael Moore - 2004 - Fahrenheit 9/11

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The movie Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale and Sean Bean, draws heavily from Fahrenheit 451, as well as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.

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Equilibrium - Christian Bale - Sean Bean - Nineteen Eighty-Four - Brave New World

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The PC game "Starcraft" featured a flamethrower-wielding character named "Gui Montag".

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In 1984 a "Fahrenheit 451" video game was made for the C64 and the Apple II computers.

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1984 - C64 - Apple II

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