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Summary of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a classic science fiction novel named for the temperature at which paper combusts. The story is set in a futuristic United States, run by an authoritarian government, where nearly everyone's attention is preoccupied by mindless television and radio programs...
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Ray Bradbury's terrifying short story, one of the great stories of childhood-as-nightmare, appeared originally in Esquire in October 1953; it first appeared in book form in the Ballantine first issue of his famous novel, Fahrenheit 451. Charles Underhill, seeking to protect his young son from the agonies of schoolyard bullying in the playground makes a deal with the playground's mysterious manager but only at the end discovers the true nature of the...
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A compilation of brief summaries of approximately thirteen contemporary novels, illustrated with infographics for easy consumption, and bearing Spark's TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read) brand.
Chapters in this volume consist of six-page summaries of well-known contemporary novels illustrated with four-color infographics and organized in thematic groupings: "If This Goes On" (e.g., Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid's Tale); "Made in America" (e.g., The Great...
4) The Fireman
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Fahrenheit 451 comes true in the life of "1337" (elite) hacker Mason Grant who works for a government agency called Department 451. His job is to seek out, crack, and destroy banned ebooks from websites that still host such digital contraband. He and his coworkers are called The Firemen, responsible for the cyber enforcement of literary censorship laws. While he begins to doubt the morality of what his department is doing, he becomes the victim of...
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"People think - wrongly - that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn't; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of it. Futures are huge things that come with many elements and a billion variables, and the human race has a habit ... What speculative fiction is good at is not the future but the present - taking an aspect of it that troubles or is dangerous and extrapolating that aspect into something that allows the people...
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"Silence is essential. Question nothing. Obey everything." Franklin Gamble finds himself bound by these strict principles as a member of the Sovereign State. However, haunting dreams of a forgotten family and a growing suspicion that his reality is a carefully constructed facade drive him to seek the truth. When the enigmatic Coalition reaches out to him, Franklin reluctantly embarks on a journey to uncover the elusive answers. In his quest for truth,...
7) Knots
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The 29th Amendment guarantees everybody one monogamous romantic and sexual partner. As a detective with the Intimacy Allocation Unit, Sean hunts down the hoarders who violate this law.
Sean likes his job. It's the perfect cover.
But when Sean gets invited to an underground play party, his safe, simple life becomes...complicated. Every hour he spends with these outlaws, leading their life-the life he could have had-makes them seem less like targets,...
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A dystopian steampunk novel of a young man and woman desperate to escape-and destroy-the complex that has imprisoned them. From the author of The Nethers. In this world-building series, perfect for fans of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Hugh Howey's Wool, there are those who resist the grim future forced upon them . . . Myron enters the Jonesbridge Industrial Complex as a worker, a prisoner, commanded to harvest the scant resources that enable...
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Una distopía o antiutopía es una sociedad ficticia indeseable en sí misma. El término, procedente del griego, fue creado como antónimo directo de utopía, término que a su vez fue acuñado por santo Tomás Moro y figura como el título de su obra más conocida, publicada en 1516, donde describe un modelo para una sociedad ideal con niveles mínimos de crimen, violencia y pobreza. La vida en la Ciudad amurallada de Kowloon a menudo ha inspirado...