Ray Bradbury

In the backwaters of Illinois, Douglas Spaulding's grandfather makes an intoxicating brew from harvested dandelions. Distilling his experiences, young Spaulding wistfully ponders over magical tennis shoes, and machines for every purpose from happiness to time travel.

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which a book will burn. Montag is a fireman whose job is not to put out fires but to burn books. The penalty for any fireman who tries to read or hide away a book is death by the fangs of a mechanical blood-hound - and Montag has begun to doubt the wisdom of the all-powerful system…

Leaving behind Earth on the brink of destruction, man came to the red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his fears and his desires. Man conquered Mars, but the strange new world with its ancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts changed him forever...