An Asbestos-Bound, Fireproof Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

A story on a peculiar item (a copy of a book about book burnings which itself is fireproof) turns into a reflection about the real lessons behind Fahrenheit 451.

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a cul­ture,” he claimed, “just get peo­ple to stop read­ing them.”