“The most widely known contemporary author of science fiction offers
here, in his longest sustained work, a savage and shockingly prophetic
view of one possible future way of life. It is a world in which the
firemen are all important, for they are no longer utilized to put out
fires, but to start them, for theirs is a world in which books and
independent thinking are forbidden and the possession of books is
punished by the burning of books, house, and owner. It is a world which,
like that of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, is far more likely to come into being than the various world of many other imaginative writers. ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/savage-and-shockingly-prophetic-on-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451/
August Derleth, The Chicago Tribune, October 25, 1953
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