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Description
Fiction. Science Fiction & Fantasy. HTML: The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do..
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Original publication date
1953
Awards
Hugo Award (Nominee — Novel — 1954)
Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards (Silver Medal — Fiction — 1953)
Geffen Award (2002)
Locus All-Time Best (Science Fiction Novel — 29 — 1998)
The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (Science Fiction and Fantasy)
The SF Book Club's "The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years From 1953-2002" (10)
The Great American Novels (1953)
Illinois Reads (2019)
Reading Olympics (High School — 2024)
NEA Big Read (2009)