
Ray Bradbury, Technology, and Book People
When most people think of Ray Bradbury, they think of Fahrenheit 451, his famous novel of book-burning and censorship, the title referring to the temperature at which paper burns. When I was growing up I read mostly Bradbury’s short stories, of which he was a master, but I also read longer works such as The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes (which is better than the movie, though the movie does a decent job of it). By the time I hit my twenties I was alre