Science fiction is a genre that most people don't approve of. Not because it requires crude humor or other horrible things to be in it (which it doesn’t), but because of what it tells us. Science fiction books have been rejected by many people because those people believe that it makes us want to rebel, and tells us something about our society that we might be better off not knowing. Two science fiction stories, the book Fahrenheit 451 and the short story "Harrison Bergeron", beg to differ. Both stories display clear proof that knowledge is power in both, the setting created by the authors of the books, and the world we live in. Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, showed that knowledge is power throughout his book in many different