The name a451 is due in part to the prophetic classic novel by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. Set at some time in the future Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness.
The classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, conformity and drugs. Bradbury's poetic and powerful prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, fifty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock. Thanks for that Amazon!
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