topics: |  science-fiction

"Firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.
(Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns).  Fireman Guy
Montag loves watching books burn, but then he meets a seventeen-year old girl
who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who
thinks there is a future where people could think.  Then Montag "suddenly
discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas and cry out silently when put
to the torch."