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Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

£65

Illustrated By Sam Weber

Introduced By Michael Moorcock

Ray Bradbury’s classic envisages a dystopian future in which the job of firemen is to seek out books and burn them. With an introduction by Michael Moorcock and haunting illustrations by Sam Weber, this beautifully crafted volume brings new intensity to Bradbury’s chilling vision.

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Book Details
 
Production DetailsBound in blocked and printed cloth
Plain slipcase
Dimensions9½ × 5¾ inches (24.1 × 14.6 cm)
FontTypeset in Adobe Caslon with Railroad Gothic as display
Pages176
AuthorRay Bradbury
Illustrated BySam Weber
IllustrationFrontispiece and 5 colour illustrations
Publication Date05/05/2011
Editor's Notes
 
In a world still ignited by censorship and banned books, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is more prescient than ever. This stark dystopia about state censorship (and self-censorship) begs the question: ‘What happens to a society that stops thinking and reading for itself?’ Hauntingly illustrated by Sam Weber, Fahrenheit 451 remains the ultimate cautionary tale of a screen-obsessed culture and a society ruled by a destructive government.
Synopsis
 
Over nine feverish days, on a rented typewriter in the UCLA library, Ray Bradbury produced one of the most prescient novels of the 20th century. In a future where firemen seek out books to burn, screens sedate the masses and thinking for yourself is a dangerous act, Montag is a fireman who takes pride in his work - until a chance meeting with a curious young girl changes everything. As he begins to question the world around him, Montag is drawn into a quiet rebellion with deadly consequences. Bradbury's dystopia isn't ruled by tyrants, but by distraction, apathy and a culture that chooses comfort over truth. Yet beneath the flames and fear lies optimism: that books can save us from our powerful capacity for self-destruction.

About the Illustrator

Sam Weber

Sam Weber was born in Alaska, and grew up in Deep River, Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Sam moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. His work for The Folio Society includes Lord of the Flies (1954; Folio 2009) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953; Folio 2011, 2026) and Dune (1965; Folio 2015).

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About the Illustrator

Sam Weber

Sam Weber was born in Alaska, and grew up in Deep River, Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Sam moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. His work for The Folio Society includes Lord of the Flies (1954; Folio 2009) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953; Folio 2011, 2026) and Dune (1965; Folio 2015).

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About the Illustrator

Sam Weber

Sam Weber was born in Alaska, and grew up in Deep River, Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Sam moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. His work for The Folio Society includes Lord of the Flies (1954; Folio 2009) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953; Folio 2011, 2026) and Dune (1965; Folio 2015).

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About the Illustrator

Sam Weber

Sam Weber was born in Alaska, and grew up in Deep River, Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Sam moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. His work for The Folio Society includes Lord of the Flies (1954; Folio 2009) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953; Folio 2011, 2026) and Dune (1965; Folio 2015).

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About the Illustrator

Sam Weber

Sam Weber was born in Alaska, and grew up in Deep River, Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Sam moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. His work for The Folio Society includes Lord of the Flies (1954; Folio 2009) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953; Folio 2011, 2026) and Dune (1965; Folio 2015).

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Author image

Ray Bradbury was born in Illinois in 1920, and spent most of his life in Los Angeles. He did not go to university and was a full-time writer from the age of 23; his short story ‘Homecoming’ was picked from the slush pile at Mademoiselle magazine by Truman Capote. Bradbury’s first book, a collection of short stories entitled Dark Carnival, was published in 1947. The Martian Chronicles (1950) was followed by The Illustrated Man (1951) and his seminal work of dystopian science fiction, Fahrenheit 451, in 1953 (Folio 2011; 2026). He died in 2012.

Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British Sci-Fi and Fantasy literature. His novels have won, and been shortlisted for, numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award; in 2001, he was inducted into the Sci-Fi Hall of Fame; and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of Sci-Fi editorship in the UK and was crucial in the development of the Sci-Fi New Wave.

Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris. As well as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Folio 2016) and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000; Folio 2020), Moorcock introduced the Folio book of Fahrenheit 451 (1953; Folio 2011) and wrote the preface to Marvel: The Silver Age 1960–1970 (2018).