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Jordan">Michael B. Jordan</a> (2018 film)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Gender</th><td class="infobox-data">Male</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Book_burning" title="Book burning">Fireman (book burner)</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Mildred (wife)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Guy Montag</b> is a fictional character and the <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Dystopia" title="Dystopia">dystopia</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" title="Fahrenheit 451">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (1953). He is depicted living in a futuristic town where he works as a "fireman" whose job is to burn books and the buildings they are found in. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Role_in_plot">Role in plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Montag&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Role in plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the opening of the novel, he is happy in his work destroying books and never wonders about his role as a tool of <a href="/wiki/Thought_suppression" title="Thought suppression">thought suppression</a>. Several events cause him to question his own existence: </p> <ul><li>First, he meets <a href="/wiki/Clarisse_McClellan" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarisse McClellan">Clarisse McClellan</a>, a 17-year-old, while walking home from work. His talks with her are thought-provoking and assuage Montag's loneliness. Her death spurs him into becoming a radical.</li> <li>Second, he discovers that his <a href="/wiki/Mildred_Montag" class="mw-redirect" title="Mildred Montag">wife</a>, who prefers watching <i>The Family</i>, her favorite program on television or the parlor walls, and radio on "seashell earbuds" to human interaction, has overdosed on sleeping pills. The callous behavior of the paramedics makes him feel very <a href="/wiki/Social_alienation" title="Social alienation">alienated</a>, while his wife's emptiness disturbs and angers him.</li> <li>Third, he has a call to go to a house owned by an old woman who hid away a library of books. Rather than be led out of the house before it is burned, she decides to set the fire herself, and burns alive with her books.</li> <li>Fourth, he remembers a chance meeting he had one year previously with an old man in the park, who is later identified as <a href="/wiki/Faber_(character)" class="mw-redirect" title="Faber (character)">an English professor</a>. Montag, who has secretly been hiding books in his own house, eventually makes contact with this man, named Faber.</li></ul> <p>Over the course of the novel, Montag becomes increasingly disillusioned with the <a href="/wiki/Hedonism" title="Hedonism">hedonistic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anti-intellectualism" title="Anti-intellectualism">anti-intellectual</a> society around him. Bradbury emphasizes that the U.S. government, in burning books, is merely expressing the will of a people whose short attention spans, indifference, and hedonism have gradually eroded any semblance of <a href="/wiki/Intellectualism" title="Intellectualism">intellectualism</a> from public life. Schools no longer teach the humanities, children are casually violent, and adults are constantly distracted by "seashells" (small audio devices resembling <a href="/wiki/Earbud" class="mw-redirect" title="Earbud">earbuds</a>) and insipid <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a> programs displayed on wall-sized screens. Authors and readers are regarded as pretentious and dangerous to the well-being of society. He meets many characters that change his outlook on life such as Clarisse and Faber. </p><p>After an incident where Montag tries to read a poem to his wife's friends when they are visiting, his wife denounces their house as book-possessing. Montag's fire chief, <a href="/wiki/Captain_Beatty" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain Beatty">Beatty</a>, tries to persuade him that books are evil, and urges him to return to the unthinking fireman mentality, but Montag refuses. </p><p>After the firehouse receives an alert, Beatty drives the fire truck to the location, which is Montag's house. Beatty forces Montag to set fire to his own house. After Montag is finished, Beatty confronts Montag and discovers the device he uses to communicate with Faber. After Beatty vows to track down who was on the other line, Montag turns the fire hose on Beatty and burns him to death. </p><p>He flees through the city streets to Faber's house, with another firehouse's mechanical hound and television network helicopters in hot pursuit. When he arrives at Faber's home, the old man tells Montag of <a href="/wiki/Vagrancy_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vagrancy (people)">vagabond</a> book-lovers in the countryside. Montag then escapes to a local river, floats downstream and meets a group of older men who, to Montag's astonishment, have memorized entire books, preserving them orally until the law against books is overturned. The war begins. Montag watches helplessly as jet bombers fly overhead and attack the city with <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_other_media">In other media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Montag&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: In other media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Montag's fate is expanded on in the semi-canonical <a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(video_game)" title="Fahrenheit 451 (video game)">1984 video game <i>Fahrenheit 451</i></a>, which acts as a sequel to the novel. In the game, Montag has continued to evade and resist the Firemen for over five years after the end of the novel and is sent on a mission to break into <a href="/wiki/New_York_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Library">New York Library</a> and transmit its microcassette archive to the Underground. He succeeds and reunites with Clarisse (who is alive in this version) during the process; however, the Firemen storm the building and immolate them both. </p><p>In the 1995 Strategy game StarCraft, a firebat hero is named Gui Montag. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_notes">Historical notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Montag&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Historical notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Montag is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Oskar_Werner" title="Oskar Werner">Oskar Werner</a> in the 1966 <a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film)" title="Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)">film version</a>.</li> <li>Montag is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_B._Jordan" title="Michael B. Jordan">Michael B. Jordan</a> in the 2018 <a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(2018_film)" title="Fahrenheit 451 (2018 film)">television film version</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the afterword of the 2003 fiftieth anniversary edition of the book, Bradbury states that only upon later reflection of his work did he realize he had subconsciously named Montag after a paper company, making him the counterpart to <a href="/wiki/Faber_(Fahrenheit_451)" class="mw-redirect" title="Faber (Fahrenheit 451)">Faber</a>, which is also the name of <a href="/wiki/Faber-Castell" title="Faber-Castell">a pencil manufacturer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guy_Montag&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/26/17054814/fahrenheit-451-first-look-trailer-hbo-michael-b-jordan-michael-shannon-ray-bradbury">"The first trailer for HBO's Fahrenheit 451 is incredibly hot"</a>. <i>The Verge</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2018-02-27</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Verge&rft.atitle=The+first+trailer+for+HBO%27s+Fahrenheit+451+is+incredibly+hot&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2018%2F2%2F26%2F17054814%2Ffahrenheit-451-first-look-trailer-hbo-michael-b-jordan-michael-shannon-ray-bradbury&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGuy+Montag" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradbury, Ray. Afterword. <i>Fahrenheit 451: The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition</i>. By Ray Bradbury. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. 173. 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href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury_bibliography" title="Ray Bradbury bibliography">Bibliography</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury_short_fiction_bibliography" title="Ray Bradbury short fiction bibliography">Short fiction</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Martian Chronicles</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" title="Fahrenheit 451">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dandelion_Wine" title="Dandelion Wine">Dandelion Wine</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(novel)" title="Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)">Something Wicked This Way Comes</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Halloween_Tree" title="The Halloween Tree">The Halloween Tree</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Death_Is_a_Lonely_Business" title="Death Is a Lonely Business">Death Is a Lonely Business</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Graveyard_for_Lunatics" title="A Graveyard for Lunatics">A Graveyard for Lunatics</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Green_Shadows,_White_Whale" title="Green Shadows, White Whale">Green Shadows, White Whale</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/From_the_Dust_Returned" title="From the Dust Returned">From the Dust Returned</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let%27s_All_Kill_Constance" title="Let's All Kill Constance">Let's All Kill Constance</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farewell_Summer" title="Farewell Summer">Farewell Summer</a></i> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Hollerbochen%27s_Dilemma" title="Hollerbochen's Dilemma">Hollerbochen's Dilemma</a>" (1938)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Scythe_(short_story)" title="The Scythe (short story)">The Scythe</a>" (1943)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I,_Rocket" title="I, Rocket">I, Rocket</a>" (1944)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Lake_(short_story)" title="The Lake (short story)">The Lake</a>" (1944)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Frost_and_Fire_(short_story)" title="Frost and Fire (short story)">Frost and Fire</a>" (1946)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles#The_Million-Year_Picnic_(October_2026/2057)" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Million Year Picnic</a>" (1946)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Small_Assassin_(short_story)" title="The Small Assassin (short story)">The Small Assassin</a>" (1946)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_See_You_Never" title="I See You Never">I See You Never</a>" (1947)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fever_Dream_(short_story)" title="Fever Dream (short story)">Fever Dream</a>" (1948)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Fruit_at_the_Bottom_of_the_Bowl" title="The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl">The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl</a>" (1948)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles#The_Long_Years_(April_2026/2057)" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Long Years</a>" (1948)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mars_Is_Heaven!" title="Mars Is Heaven!">Mars Is Heaven!</a>" (1948)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dark_They_Were,_and_Golden-Eyed" title="Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed">Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed</a>" (1949)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Exiles_(Bradbury_story)" title="The Exiles (Bradbury story)">The Exiles</a>" (1949)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Marionettes,_Inc." title="Marionettes, Inc.">Marionettes, Inc.</a>" (1949)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Long_Rain" title="The Long Rain">The Long Rain</a>" (1950)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Rocket_(short_story)" title="The Rocket (short story)">The Rocket</a>" (1950)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)" title="There Will Come Soft Rains (short story)">There Will Come Soft Rains</a>" (1950)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story)" title="The Veldt (short story)">The Veldt</a>" (1950)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles#Ylla_(February_1999/2030)" title="The Martian Chronicles">Ylla</a>" (1950)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Embroidery_(short_story)" class="mw-redirect" title="Embroidery (short story)">Embroidery</a>" (1951)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Fog_Horn" title="The Fog Horn">The Fog Horn</a>" (1951)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Here_There_Be_Tygers" title="Here There Be Tygers">Here There Be Tygers</a>" (1951)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Pedestrian" title="The Pedestrian">The Pedestrian</a>" (1951)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_April_Witch" title="The April Witch">The April Witch</a>" (1952)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder" title="A Sound of Thunder">A Sound of Thunder</a>" (1952)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Wilderness_(short_story)" title="The Wilderness (short story)">The Wilderness</a>" (1952)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Flying_Machine_(short_story)" title="The Flying Machine (short story)">The Flying Machine</a>" (1953)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Kite,_the_Silver_Wind" title="The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind">The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind</a>" (1953)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Meadow_(play)" title="The Meadow (play)">The Meadow</a>" (1953)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Murderer" title="The Murderer">The Murderer</a>" (1953)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sun_and_Shadow_(short_story)" title="Sun and Shadow (short story)">Sun and Shadow</a>" (1953)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/All_Summer_in_a_Day" title="All Summer in a Day">All Summer in a Day</a>" (1954)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Dragon_(short_story)" title="The Dragon (short story)">The Dragon</a>" (1955)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Aqueduct" title="The Aqueduct">The Aqueduct</a>" (1979)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Banshee_(short_story)" title="Banshee (short story)">Banshee</a>" (1984)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Toynbee_Convector" title="The Toynbee Convector">The Toynbee Convector</a>" (1984)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Is_That_You,_Herb%3F" title="Is That You, Herb?">Is That You, Herb?</a>" (2003)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Carnival_(short_story_collection)" title="Dark Carnival (short story collection)">Dark Carnival</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man" title="The Illustrated Man">The Illustrated Man</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Apples_of_the_Sun" title="The Golden Apples of the Sun">The Golden Apples of the Sun</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_October_Country" title="The October Country">The October Country</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Medicine_for_Melancholy" title="A Medicine for Melancholy">A Medicine for Melancholy</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Medicine_for_Melancholy" title="A Medicine for Melancholy">The Day It Rained Forever</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Small_Assassin" title="The Small Assassin">The Small Assassin</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/R_Is_for_Rocket" title="R Is for Rocket">R Is for Rocket</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Machineries_of_Joy" title="The Machineries of Joy">The Machineries of Joy</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vintage_Bradbury" title="The Vintage Bradbury">The Vintage Bradbury</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/S_Is_for_Space" title="S Is for Space">S Is for Space</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twice_22" title="Twice 22">Twice 22</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Sing_the_Body_Electric!_(short_story_collection)" title="I Sing the Body Electric! (short story collection)">I Sing the Body Electric!</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury_(short_story_collection)" title="Ray Bradbury (short story collection)">Ray Bradbury</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Long_After_Midnight" title="Long After Midnight">Long After Midnight</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fog_Horn_%26_Other_Stories" title="The Fog Horn & Other Stories">The Fog Horn & Other Stories</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Circus_and_the_Electrocution" title="The Last Circus and the Electrocution">The Last Circus and the Electrocution</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Stories_of_Ray_Bradbury" title="The Stories of Ray Bradbury">The Stories of Ray Bradbury</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fog_Horn_and_Other_Stories" title="The Fog Horn and Other Stories">The Fog Horn and Other Stories</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dinosaur_Tales" title="Dinosaur Tales">Dinosaur Tales</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Memory_of_Murder" title="A Memory of Murder">A Memory of Murder</a></i> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Toynbee_Convector_(short_story_collection)" title="The Toynbee Convector (short story collection)">The Toynbee Convector</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Classic_Stories_1" title="Classic Stories 1">Classic Stories 1</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Classic_Stories_2" title="Classic Stories 2">Classic Stories 2</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Parrot_Who_Met_Papa" title="The Parrot Who Met Papa">The Parrot Who Met Papa</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Selected_from_Dark_They_Were,_and_Golden-Eyed" title="Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed">Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quicker_Than_the_Eye" title="Quicker Than the Eye">Quicker Than the Eye</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Driving_Blind" title="Driving Blind">Driving Blind</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury_Collected_Short_Stories" title="Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories">Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_More_for_the_Road_(short_story_collection)" title="One More for the Road (short story collection)">One More for the Road</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bradbury_Stories:_100_of_His_Most_Celebrated_Tales" title="Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales">Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales</a></i> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cat%27s_Pajamas:_Stories" title="The Cat's Pajamas: Stories">The Cat's Pajamas: Stories</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Classic_Stories_1" title="Classic Stories 1">A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dragon_Who_Ate_His_Tail" title="The Dragon Who Ate His Tail">The Dragon Who Ate His Tail</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Summer_Morning,_Summer_Night" title="Summer Morning, Summer Night">Summer Morning, Summer Night</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Pleasure_to_Burn" title="A Pleasure to Burn">A Pleasure to Burn</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Ray_Bradbury" title="The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury">The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury</a></i> (2011, 2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Meadow_(play)" title="The Meadow (play)">The Meadow</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Flying_Machine_(short_story)" title="The Flying Machine (short story)">The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Ice_Cream_Suit_and_Other_Plays" title="The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays">The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pillar_of_Fire_and_Other_Plays" title="Pillar of Fire and Other Plays">Pillar of Fire and Other Plays</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Martian Chronicles</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Ice_Cream_Suit" title="The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit">The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451" title="Fahrenheit 451">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dandelion_Wine" title="Dandelion Wine">Dandelion Wine</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story)" title="The Veldt (short story)">The Veldt</a></i> (1988)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/It_Came_from_Outer_Space" title="It Came from Outer Space">It Came from Outer Space</a></i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956_film)" title="Moby Dick (1956 film)">Moby Dick</a></i> (1956 screenplay)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_Sing_the_Body_Electric_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="I Sing the Body Electric (The Twilight Zone)">I Sing the Body Electric</a>" (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Autumn_People" title="The Autumn People">The Autumn People</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tomorrow_Midnight" title="Tomorrow Midnight">Tomorrow Midnight</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film)" title="Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Picasso_Summer" title="The Picasso Summer">The Picasso Summer</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man_(film)" title="The Illustrated Man (film)">The Illustrated Man</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles_(miniseries)" title="The Martian Chronicles (miniseries)">The Martian Chronicles</a></i> (1980 miniseries)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Electric_Grandmother" title="The Electric Grandmother">The Electric Grandmother</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes_(film)" title="Something Wicked This Way Comes (film)">Something Wicked This Way Comes</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bradbury_13" title="Bradbury 13">Bradbury 13</a></i> (radio series, 1983–84)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(video_game)" title="Fahrenheit 451 (video game)">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (1984)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Burning_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Burning Man (The Twilight Zone)">The Burning Man</a>" (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Veldt_(film)" title="The Veldt (film)">The Veldt</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ray_Bradbury_Theater" title="The Ray Bradbury Theater">The Ray Bradbury Theater</a></i> (TV series, 1985–86, 1988-1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Halloween_Tree_(film)" title="The Halloween Tree (film)">The Halloween Tree</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dandelion_Wine_(film)" title="Dandelion Wine (film)">Dandelion Wine</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wonderful_Ice_Cream_Suit" title="The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit">The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder_(film)" title="A Sound of Thunder (film)">A Sound of Thunder</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury%27s_Chrysalis" title="Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis">Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Whispers_(TV_series)" title="The Whispers (TV series)">The Whispers</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_(2018_film)" title="Fahrenheit 451 (2018 film)">Fahrenheit 451</a></i> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Futuria_Fantasia" title="Futuria Fantasia">Futuria Fantasia</a></i> (1939–1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mummies_of_Guanajuato" title="The Mummies of Guanajuato">The Mummies of Guanajuato</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zen_in_the_Art_of_Writing" title="Zen in the Art of Writing">Zen in the Art of Writing</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/It_Came_from_Outer_Space_(book)" title="It Came from Outer Space (book)">It Came from Outer Space</a></i> (2003 book)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Guy Montag</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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