Background on Ray Bradbury. The life of Ray Bradbury / Gary K. Wolfe ; Ray Bradbury's childhood and ancestors / Sam Weller ; An interview with Ray Bradbury / Ray Bradbury ; interviewed by John Geirland

Fahrenheit 451 and censorship. The timeliness of Ray Bradbury's criticism of censorship / Edward E. Eller ; The dictatorship of American censorship / Erika Gottlieb ; The Cold War and Fahrenheit 451 / Kevin Hoskinson ; Access to books is important / Charles P. Hamblen ; Mock book burning elicits strong feelings / Robert Gardner ; Consumerism makes conformity easy / David Seed ; A mistake in Fahrenheit 451 echoes Bradbury's themes / Joseph F. Brown ; Fahrenheit 451 comes close to describing the future / Dwight T. Wright ; Fahrenheit 451 teaches that censorship is counterproductive / Rodney A. Smolla

Contemporary perspectives on censorship. A contemporary book banning illuminates the dangers of censorship / Fenice B. Boyd and Nancy M. Bailey ; School censorship of off-campus speech / Julie Hilden ; The censoring of students / Amelia McDonell-Parry ; Censorship is sometimes necessary / Amelia Jimenez ; Governments should not try to censor the Internet / Fons Tuinstra.